Playing with the big boys : basketball, American imperialism, and subaltern discourse in the Philippines
Playing with the big boys : basketball, American imperialism, and subaltern discourse in the Philippines
Statement of responsibility
Lou Antolihao
Class number
GEN GV 885.8.P5 A58 2017
Pagination
xix, 234 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Publisher
Ateneo de Manila University Press
Publication place
Quezon City
Copyright
2017
ISBN
978-971-550-802-5
Type of material
PRINT
Notes, tracings, et.
Includes index and bibliographical references Contents : Spheroid of Influence: Sports, Colonization, Modernity -- From Baseball Colony to Basketball Republic: Postcolonial Transition and National Sporting Culture -- The Hollywoodization of Hoops: Basketb
Summary
""Playing with the Big Boys" traces the development of basketball in the Philippines from an educational tool during the early period of American colonial rule in the early twentieth century to a ubiquitous national pastime"--
Subject 1
BASKETBALL - PHILIPPINES - HISTORY.
Subject 2
BASKETBALL - SOCIAL ASPECTS - PHILIPPINES.
Subject 3
FILIPINOS - SOCIAL LIFE AND CUSTOMS.
Accession
OFI-013658
Status
Available
Location
GENERAL