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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Playing Out of Bounds: "Belonging" and the North American Chinese Invitational Volleyball Tournament

Playing Out of Bounds: "Belonging" and the North American Chinese Invitational Volleyball Tournament

Nakamura, Yuka

Paperback

Sports GeneralGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1487523645
ISBN13: 9781487523640
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Aug 13 2019
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Playing Out of Bounds investigates the North American Chinese Invitational Volleyball Tournament (NACIVT), an annual event that began in the 1930s in the streets of Manhattan and now attracts 1200 competitors from the U.S. and Canada. Its two key features are the 9-man game, where there are nine instead of the usual six volleyball players on the court, and the fact that player eligibility is limited to 100% Chinese and Asian players, as defined in the tournament rules. These rules that limit competitors to specific ethno-racial groups is justified by the discrimination that Chinese people faced when they were denied access to physical activity spaces, and instead played in the alleyways and streets of Chinatowns.

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