Joel S Franks

From Honolulu to Brooklyn

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

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Produktbeschreibung

Arguably the most famous baseball team outside of the major leagues in the early twentieth century, the Travelers from Hawai¿i 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 4g
• ISBN-13: 9781978829268
• ISBN-10: 1978829264
• Artikelnr.: 63365325

Autorenporträt

JOEL S. FRANKS is an emeritus professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science and Sociology at San Jose State University, California. He is the author of numerous books, including  Asians and Pacific Islanders in American Football: Historical and Contemporary Experiences.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Chapter One: Defying Assumptions: Baseball, Asians, and Hawai
 i        Chapter Two: The Travelers from Hawai
 i: Culture, Capitalism, and Baseball      Chapter Three: The Travelers Take the Field                         Chapter Four: Crossings of Baseball’s Racial Fault Lines, 1917-1918         Chapter Five: Peripatetic Pros: 1919-1934                         Chapter Six: The Travelers Back Home: Hawai
 i Between the Wars         Chapter Seven: Buck Lai’s Journeys, 1935-1937                     Chapter Eight: Playing in the Twilight                         Conclusion                                         Acknowledgements