Gridiron Capital: How American Football Became a Samoan Game

Tue 11/15/2022 • 3PM - 5PM PST

UCLA Royce Hall Room 306

In this book talk, Lisa Uperesa of the University of Auckland - Pacific Studies will show how the Samoan ascendancy in football is underpinned by the legacies of US empire and a set of imperial formations that mark indigenous Pacific peoples as racialized subjects of US economic aid and development.