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Hockey and multiculturalism are often noted as defining features of Canadian culture; yet, rarely are we forced to question the relationship and tensions between these two social constructs. This book seeks to inject more “color” into hockey’s historically white dominated narratives by amplifying the voices of South Asian hockey participants.
List of contents
Dedication
List of Acronyms
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Complicating Canadian Culture
Research Methods
Overview of the Book
Chapter 1 Myth Busting: Hockey, multiculturalism, and Canada
Myth #1: Hockey is Canada
Who or what are we integrating?
Myth #2: Canada is a multicultural haven
Whiteness in Canadian hockey
Citizenship
South Asians in Canada
The Space of Surrey
Chapter 2 Narratives from the Screen: Media and cultural citizenship
Hockey Night in Punjabi
Ethnic (Sports) Media
Breaking Barriers
Co-Authoring One’s Existence
Limits of Ethnic Media
Chapter 3 White Spaces, Different Faces: Policing membership at the rink and in the nation
Who belongs in a space? Who is trespassing?
Self-Identification
Brown
Being the Only One
Chapter 4 Racist Taunts of Just Chirping?
Just chirping?
Was it really racist?
An archive of evidence
Chapter 5 South Asian Masculinities and Femininities
The irony of hockey performativity
South Asian masculinities
Verbal trauma and the body
South Asian femininities
The noisiness of women’s hockey
Chapter 6 Hockey Hurdles and Resilient Subjects: Unpacking forms of capital
Navigating forms of capital
Cost, time, and interconnections with other forms of capital
Language and other aspects of cultural capital
The gatekeepers
Assumptions about diversity: Flaws in logic
Meritocratic and resilient subjects
Chapter 7 Racialized Money and White Fragility: Class and resentment in hockey
Model minorities
Throwing money at hockey
White fragility
Brown out hockey: Capitalism at its best
Chapter 8 Taking Stock: Public memory and the re-telling of hockey in Canada
Hockey Hall of Fame
The role of media
Writing in: DIY citizenship
Conclusion: A commitment to the future
Shifting labor
Writing the wrong
Appendix A: Qualitative methodology
Appendix B: Participant information
Appendix C: British Columbia competitive hockey structure
References
About the author
About the author
COURTNEY SZTO is an assistant professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies at at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. She is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) funded researcher whose work broadly explores the relationship between physical cultures and intersectional justice.
Summary
Hockey and multiculturalism are often noted as defining features of Canadian culture; yet, rarely are we forced to question the relationship and tensions between these two social constructs. This book examines the growing significance of hockey in Canada's South Asian communities.
