| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 400 pages) |
| Series |
Sport, culture & society |
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Sport, culture & society (University of Arkansas Press)
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| Contents |
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Preface; I. Studying Race and Ethnicity in Sport; Introduction; 1 / Beyond C.L.R. James's Beyond a Boundary: From Liberation and Nationalism to Globalization and Commodification in the West Indies; 2 / Ambiguity within the Boundary: Rereading C.L.R. James's Beyond a Boundary; 3 / Embodied Identities: Sport and Race in South Africa; 4 / Indigenous Australians and Sport: Critical Reflections; 5 / Beyond Black and White: A Study of the Luis Suarez-Patrice Evra Controversy; II. Race and Ethnicity in Historical Context |
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Introduction6 / On Display: Cricket and Minstrel Shows in Australia's Colonial Far North, 1869-1911; 7 / Competitive Combat, Warrior Bodies, and Zulu Sport: The Gender Relations of Stick Fighting in South Africa, 1800-1930; 8 / Ethnicity in Black and White: Immigration, Sport, and the Italian Quest for Identity in the United States; 9 / "The Tuskegee Flash" and "the Slender Harlem Stroker": Black Women Athletes on the Margins; III. Ethnicity, Migration, Bodies, and Sport; Introduction; 10 / Tamales, Tapetes, and Basketball: Signs of Oaxacan Ethnicity in the United States |
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11 / Sport in Migrant Communities: Transnational Spaces and Gender Relations12 / Masculinities beyond Otherness: Cricket, Gender, and Ethnicity in Oslo, Norway; 13 / Ethnicity, National Identity, and Cricket in Contemporary Trinidad and Tobago; IV. Crossing Boundaries/Maintaining Boundaries; Introduction; 14 / Into the Great White Yonder: Stabilizing and Transcending Whiteness in Alternative Sports; 15 / A Unique Social Tapestry: Football, Sectarianism, and Racism in Northern Ireland; 16 / "Who Do 'They' Cheer For?" Cricket, Diaspora, Hybridity, and Divided Loyalties among British Asians |
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17 / Usain Bolt, Celebration at Ninety: A Spatial Analysis of the Beijing 2008 Men's 100-Meter FinalNotes; List of Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
John Nauright is the author of Soccer Around the World: A Cultural Guide and Long Run to Freedom: Sport, Culture and Identities in South Africa . Alan G. Cobley is the author of The Rules of the Game: Struggles in Black Recreation and Social Welfare Policy in South Africa . David K. Wiggins is the coeditor of Rivals: Legendary Matchups That Made Sports History and Out of the Shadows: A Biographical History of African American Athletes |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
African American athletes -- Race identity
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Sports -- Social aspects
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Minorities in sports.
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Racism in sports.
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African American athletes -- Ethnic identity
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Essays.
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Racism in sports
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Minorities in sports
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Sports -- Social aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Nauright, John, editor
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Cobley, Alan G., editor
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Wiggins, David K., editor
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| ISBN |
9781610755344 |
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1610755340 |
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1557286493 |
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9781557286499 |
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