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.
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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| Date: |
November 2014 |
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| 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 |
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Yes |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Cricket, boxing, race, Panama, Caribbean, migration, transnational, migration, Joe, Louis, Alfonso, Teófilo, "Panama, Al", Brown |
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https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_sport_his... |
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Research Article |
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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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