Changing on the Fly

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.
 

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
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