Jan Bant
Biographic Data
| ID | 4640667 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jan Bant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jan |
| FAMILY NAME | Bant |
| SIGNATURE | BANT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-8821-1286 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Playing for a Place
This article analyses the historical role of baseball in the migratory experiences of the Dutch Caribbean diaspora in a small city in the south of the Netherlands. It argues that baseball clubs formed important spaces where postcolonial transitions, and especially negotiations over the belonging of postcolonial migrants, were played out. While the relationship between sport and postcolonial migration is a topic of increasing interest, it is under…
Get Lost to Your Island
Sint Maarten-born baseball player Hamilton Richardson became a pioneering Afro-Caribbean sports star in the 1960s Netherlands, when the country was relatively white and ethnically homogenous. This study examines how he was portrayed by the Dutch press and how he presented himself in the same media between 1962 and 1991. While scholarship on Black athletes in the media focused on external representations, athletes’ own mediated self-presentation r…
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Get Lost to Your Island
Sint Maarten-born baseball player Hamilton Richardson became a pioneering Afro-Caribbean sports star in the 1960s Netherlands, when the country was relatively white and ethnically homogenous. This study examines how he was portrayed by the Dutch press and how he presented himself in the same media between 1962 and 1991. While scholarship on Black athletes in the media focused on external representations, athletes’ own mediated self-presentation r…
Playing for a Place
This article analyses the historical role of baseball in the migratory experiences of the Dutch Caribbean diaspora in a small city in the south of the Netherlands. It argues that baseball clubs formed important spaces where postcolonial transitions, and especially negotiations over the belonging of postcolonial migrants, were played out. While the relationship between sport and postcolonial migration is a topic of increasing interest, it is under…
American Sports and Literature (2 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (2 works) · Art (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Caribbean art (1 work) · Cartography (1 work) · Colonialism (1 work) · Diaspora (1 work) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (1 work) · Genealogy (1 work)