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The Panama Cannonball’s Transnational Ties: Migrants, Sport, and Belonging in the Interwar Greater Caribbean

Putnam, Lara (2014) The Panama Cannonball’s Transnational Ties: Migrants, Sport, and Belonging in the Interwar Greater Caribbean. Journal of Sport History, 41 (3). 401 - 424.

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Abstract

The interwar years saw the creation of a circum-Caribbean migratory sphere, linking British colonial sending societies like Jamaica and Barbados to receiving societies from Panama to Cuba to the Dominican Republic to the United States. The overlapping circulation of migrants and media created transnational social fields within which sport practice and sport fandom helped build face-to-face and imagined communities alike. For the several hundred thousand British Caribbean emigrants and their children who by the late 1920s resided abroad, cricket and boxing were especially central. The study of sport among interwar British Caribbean migrants reveals overlapping transnational ties that created microcultures of sporting excellence. In this mobile and interconnected world, sport became a critical realm for the expression of nested loyalties to parish, to class, to island, to empire, and to the collective they called “Our People,” that is, “the Negro Race,” worldwide.


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Item Type: Article
Status: Published
Creators/Authors:
CreatorsEmailPitt UsernameORCID
Putnam, Laralep12@pitt.eduLEP12
Date: November 2014
Date Type: Publication
Access Restriction: No restriction; Release the ETD for access worldwide immediately.
Journal or Publication Title: Journal of Sport History
Volume: 41
Number: 3
Publisher: North American Society for Sport History
Page Range: 401 - 424
DOI or Unique Handle: 10.1353/sph.2014.0103
Institution: University of Pittsburgh
Schools and Programs: Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences > History
Refereed: Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords: Cricket, boxing, race, Panama, Caribbean, migration, transnational, migration, Joe, Louis, Alfonso, Teófilo, "Panama, Al", Brown
Official URL: https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_sport_his...
Article Type: Research Article
Additional Information: issn: 2155-8455
Date Deposited: 23 Feb 2015 17:51
Last Modified: 21 Oct 2017 05:56
URI: http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/23989

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