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Playing with the Big Boys: Basketball, American Imperialism, and Subaltern Discourse in the Philippines, written by Lou Antolihao

Playing with the Big Boys: Basketball, American Imperialism, and Subaltern Discourse in the... Lou Antolihao, (2015) Playing with the Big Boys: Basketball, American Imperialism, and Subaltern Discourse in the Philippines. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 264 pages. ISBN: 978-0-8032-5546-3.In Playing with the Big Boys: Basketball, American Imperialism, and Subaltern Discourse in the Philippines, Lou Antolihao studies the history of basketball in the Philippines from a socio-cultural perspective. The author seeks to answer why a nation whose male citizens average less than five feet, six inches tall, is obsessed with a sport that is dominated by six foot men (p. 6). That is, Antoliaho seeks to study the historical process by which Filipinos incorporated the sport of basketball into their national identity. Four main objectives guide this book: 1. To provide a historical account of the introduction of basketball and its popularity, 2. To show the ways in which basketball spread locally, 3. To analyse basketball’s social relevance at different time periods, and 4. To explore Filipino basketball’s role in larger questions of imperialism, state formation, popular culture, subalternity and globalisation (p. 6). In studying basketball in the Philippines, Antolihao seeks to explore how sports play a part in the relations between colony and empire that transcends the simplistic binary of colonial victim and oppressive http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asian Journal of Social Science Brill

Playing with the Big Boys: Basketball, American Imperialism, and Subaltern Discourse in the Philippines, written by Lou Antolihao

Asian Journal of Social Science , Volume 46 (1-2): 3 – Jan 1, 2018

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Brill
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Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
1568-4849
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1568-5314
DOI
10.1163/15685314-04601015
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Lou Antolihao, (2015) Playing with the Big Boys: Basketball, American Imperialism, and Subaltern Discourse in the Philippines. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 264 pages. ISBN: 978-0-8032-5546-3.In Playing with the Big Boys: Basketball, American Imperialism, and Subaltern Discourse in the Philippines, Lou Antolihao studies the history of basketball in the Philippines from a socio-cultural perspective. The author seeks to answer why a nation whose male citizens average less than five feet, six inches tall, is obsessed with a sport that is dominated by six foot men (p. 6). That is, Antoliaho seeks to study the historical process by which Filipinos incorporated the sport of basketball into their national identity. Four main objectives guide this book: 1. To provide a historical account of the introduction of basketball and its popularity, 2. To show the ways in which basketball spread locally, 3. To analyse basketball’s social relevance at different time periods, and 4. To explore Filipino basketball’s role in larger questions of imperialism, state formation, popular culture, subalternity and globalisation (p. 6). In studying basketball in the Philippines, Antolihao seeks to explore how sports play a part in the relations between colony and empire that transcends the simplistic binary of colonial victim and oppressive

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Asian Journal of Social ScienceBrill

Published: Jan 1, 2018

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