Sport in the Black Atlantic

<p>This book outlines the ways sport helps to create transnational social fields that interconnect migrants dispersed across a region known as the Black Atlantic: England North America and the Caribbean. Many Caribbean men's stories about their experiences migrating to Canada settling in Toronto finding jobs and travelling involved some contact with a cricket and social club. It offers a unique contribution to black diaspora studies through showing sport in Canada as a means of contending with ageing in the diaspora creating transnational relationships and marking ethnic boundaries on a local scale. The book also brings black diaspora analysis to sport research and through a close look at what goes on before during and after cricket matches provides insights into the dis-unities contradictions and complexities of Afro-diasporic identity in multicultural Canada. It will be of interest to students and scholars in sociology sport studies and black diaspora studies.<br><br>An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC) licence.</p>