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Asians and Pacific Islanders in American Football

Historical and Contemporary Experiences

By: Joel S. Franks

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Asians and Pacific Islanders in American Football

Historical and Contemporary Experiences

By: Joel S. Franks

This book sheds light on experiences relatively underrepresented in academic and non-academic sport history. It examines how Asian and Pacific Islander peoples used American football to maintain a sense of community while encountering racial exclusion, labor exploitation, and colonialism. Through their participation and spectatorship in American football, Asian and Pacific Islander people crossed treacherous cultural frontiers to construct what sociologist Elijah Anderson has called a cosmopolitan canopy under which Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, and people of diverse racial and ethnic identities interacted with at least a semblance of respect and equity. And perhaps a surprising number of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have excelled in college and even professional football before the 1960s. Finally, acknowledging the impressive influx of elite Pacific Islander gridders who surfaced in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, it is vital to note as well the racialized nativism shadowing the lives of these athletes.

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307

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Lexington Books

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1498560989

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9781498560986

Asian American Basketball

A Century of Sport, Community and Culture

By: Joel S. Franks

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Asian American Basketball

A Century of Sport, Community and Culture

By: Joel S. Franks

When Jeremy Lin began to knock down shots for the New York Knicks in 2012, many Americans became aware for the first time that Asian Americans actually play basketball. Indeed, long before Lin shook up the NBA, Asian Americans played the game with passion and skill, and many excelled at high school, college and professional hoops. This comprehensive history of Asian American basketball discusses how these players first found a sense of community in the game, and competed despite an atmosphere of anti-Asian bigotry in historical and contemporary America.

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McFarland

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0786497181

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9780786497188

From Honolulu to Brooklyn

Running the American Empire’s Base Paths with Buck Lai and the Travelers from Hawai’i

By: Joel S. Franks

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From Honolulu to Brooklyn

Running the American Empire’s Base Paths with Buck Lai and the Travelers from Hawai’i

By: Joel S. Franks

Arguably the most famous baseball team outside of the major leagues in the early twentieth century, the Travelers from Hawaiʻi barnstormed the American mainland from 1912 to 1916. During their journeys and after, team leader and star Buck Lai and his teammates encountered racism and colonialism while asserting their humanity in a variety of ways.

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237

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Rutgers University Press

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1978829256

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9781978829251

The Barnstorming Hawaiian Travelers

A Multiethnic Baseball Team Tours the Mainland, 1912-1916

By: Joel S. Franks

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The Barnstorming Hawaiian Travelers

A Multiethnic Baseball Team Tours the Mainland, 1912-1916

By: Joel S. Franks

This book chronicles the Hawaiian Travelers, a barnstorming baseball team of multiethnic, multiracial Hawaiians, who played across the continental U.S. from 1912 through 1916. This team took on college, semi-professional, minor league, and African American nines. In the process, they won the majority of these games, while subverting venerable racial conventions. It also describes the experiences of some of these players after 1916 as they sought baseball careers on the East Coast of the mainland. This book sheds light on a generally untold story about baseball, race, and colonization in the United States during the early decades of the 20th century.

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264

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McFarland

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0786489154

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9780786489152

Asian Pacific Americans and Baseball

A History

By: Joel S. Franks

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Asian Pacific Americans and Baseball

A History

By: Joel S. Franks

With the rise of stars such as Hideo Nomo, Ichiro Suzuki, and now Daisuke Matsuzaka, fans today can easily name players from the island country of Japan. Less widely known is that baseball has long been played on other Pacific islands, in pre-statehood Hawaii, for instance, and in Guam, Samoa and the Philippines. For the multiethnic peoples of these U.S. possessions, the learning of baseball was actively encouraged, some would argue as a means to an unabashedly colonialist end. As early as the deadball era, Pacific Islanders competed against each other and against mainlanders on the diamond, with teams like the Hawaiian Travelers barnstorming the States, winning more than they lost against college, semi-pro, and even professional nines. For those who moved to the mainland, baseball eased the transition, helping Asian Pacific Americans create a sense of community and purpose, cross cultural borders, and--for a few--achieve fame.

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225

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McFarland

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0786432918

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9780786432912

Crossing Sidelines, Crossing Cultures

Sport and Asian Pacific American Cultural Citizenship

By: Joel S. Franks

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Crossing Sidelines, Crossing Cultures

Sport and Asian Pacific American Cultural Citizenship

By: Joel S. Franks

This updated edition explores the vibrant community of Asian Pacific Americans through sports. This book tells intriguing tales of athletes, such as aquatic legend Duke Kahanamoku and diving gold medalist Vicki Manalo, but has been expanded to include Tiger Woods, Tim Lincicum, Troy Polamalu and other current athletes.

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322

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0761847448

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9780761847441

Polymorphism in Molecular Crystals

By: Joel Bernstein

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Polymorphism in Molecular Crystals

By: Joel Bernstein

Polymorphism in chemistry is the existence of multiple crystal structures for one substance. The properties of a substance are determined by its composition and by its structure. This book summarizes and brings up to date the current knowledge and understading of polymorphism of molecular crystals.

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0199655448

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9780199655441

Book's by Joel S. Franks

Asians and Pacific Islanders in American Football

Asians and Pacific Islanders in American Football

Asian American Basketball

Asian American Basketball

From Honolulu to Brooklyn

From Honolulu to Brooklyn

The Barnstorming Hawaiian Travelers

The Barnstorming Hawaiian Travelers

Asian Pacific Americans and Baseball

Asian Pacific Americans and Baseball

Crossing Sidelines, Crossing Cultures

Crossing Sidelines, Crossing Cultures

Polymorphism in Molecular Crystals

Polymorphism in Molecular Crystals

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