Rooting for the underdog spectatorship and subalternity in Philippine basketball

Basketball, "the tall man's game," is ironically the Philippines's most popular sports. The symbolic depiction of "small players" and their epic matches with bigger opponents mirrors the Filipinos' struggle against larger global forces, particularly amid colonizati...

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Published in:Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints Vol. 58, no. 4 (2010), 449-480
Main Author: Antolihao, Lou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2010
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