Playing with the Big Boys: Basketball, American Imperialism, and Subaltern Discourse in the Philippines

Author:   Lou Antolihao
Publisher:   University of Nebraska Press
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Pages:   264
Publication Date:   01 May 2015
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Lou Antolihao
Publisher:   University of Nebraska Press
Imprint:   University of Nebraska Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.463kg
ISBN:  

9780803255463


ISBN 10:   0803255462
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   01 May 2015
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Spheroid of Influence: Sports, Colonization, Modernity 2. From Baseball Colony to Basketball Republic: Postcolonial Transition and National Sporting Culture 3. The Hollywoodization of Hoops: Basketball, Mass Media, Popular Culture 4. Rooting for the Underdog: Sports, Spectatorship, Subalternity 5. Basketball without Borders: Globalization and National Sports in Postcolonial Context Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Attentive to the ways in which so many aspects of political and national discourse intersect with the game of basketball. Any historians working on Philippine history or the history of sport and colonialism would be well served by reading this work. -Andrew D. Morris, professor of history at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo -- Andrew D. Morris Antolihao has written a very interesting study that nobody working on Philippine basketball and baseball can ignore. -Stefan Hubner, Journal of Asian American Studies -- Stefan Hubner * Journal of Asian American Studies * Antolihao provides a well-crafted narrative of the historical and social discourse of basketball in the Philippines. -Chad Carlson, Journal of Sport History -- Chad Carlson * Journal of Sport History *


Attentive to the ways in which so many aspects of political and national discourse intersect with the game of basketball. Any historians working on Philippine history or the history of sport and colonialism would be well served by reading this work. -Andrew D. Morris, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo -- Andrew D. Morris


"""Antolihao provides a well-crafted narrative of the historical and social discourse of basketball in the Philippines.""—Chad Carlson, Journal of Sport History ""Antolihao has written a very interesting study that nobody working on Philippine basketball and baseball can ignore.""—Stefan Hübner, Journal of Asian American Studies “Attentive to the ways in which so many aspects of political and national discourse intersect with the game of basketball. Any historians working on Philippine history or the history of sport and colonialism would be well served by reading this work.”—Andrew D. Morris, professor of history at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo "


Attentive to the ways in which so many aspects of political and national discourse intersect with the game of basketball. Any historians working on Philippine history or the history of sport and colonialism would be well served by reading this work. --Andrew D. Morris, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo--Andrew D. Morris (09/18/2014)


Attentive to the ways in which so many aspects of political and national discourse intersect with the game of basketball. Any historians working on Philippine history or the history of sport and colonialism would be well served by reading this work. Andrew D. Morris, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo--Andrew D. Morris (09/18/2014)


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Lou Antolihao is a sociologist who specializes in leisure studies and comparative-historical analysis. He has held research and teaching appointments in the Philippines, Singapore, and Japan, most recently as the JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University.

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