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1 online resource |
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- ONE: Historiography of South African Sports -- 1: Reflections on Pathways to the Writing of South African Sports History -- TWO: African Sports Pedagogy -- 2: The Final Frontier: African Sports Studies in the Classroom -- 3: African Sports in the Liberal Arts Classroom -- 4: On Teaching South African Sports History at a US University -- THREE: Resisting Discrimination and Forging Identity through Sports -- 5: "The Gist of the [Game] Is Played Out on the Edges of the Cricket Boundary" |
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6: Nigeria, Women's Football, and Resisting the Second Fiddle -- FOUR: Crossing Racial Boundaries -- 7: Beyond South Africa's Draconian Racial Segregation -- 8: Racing out of the Shadows -- FIVE: On the Margins: Informal Engagements with Sports -- 9: English Premier League Football Kiosks and the Emergence of Communal Television Viewing as a Sporting Practice -- 10: The Gambling Games -- SIX: African Sports Migration -- 11: African Footballers' Migration to Europe -- 12: Postcareer Precarity -- SEVEN: Sporting Biographies -- 13: Black Physical Culture and Weight Lifting in South Africa |
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14: Sprinting Past the End of Empire -- EIGHT: The Durable Impact of the Past: Sporting Legacies and Heritage -- 15: Rugby Transformation as Alibi -- 16: No Place of Honor -- 17: The Gift of a Running Shoe -- ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX |
| Summary |
Through the prism of sports and from a range of scholarly perspectives, this anthology offers insight into the varied and shifting experiences of African athletes, fans, communities, and postcolonial states |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 25, 2020) |
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Sports -- Social aspects -- Africa
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Sports -- Africa -- History
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Sports -- Sociological aspects.
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SPORTS & RECREATION / Sociology of Sports
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Sports
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Sports -- Social aspects
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Sports -- Sociological aspects
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Africa
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| Genre/Form |
e-books.
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History
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Livres numériques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cleveland, Todd, editor.
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Kaur, Tarminder, editor.
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Akindes, Gerard, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780821446966 |
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0821446967 |
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