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1 online resource (265 pages) |
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Sport in the Global Society |
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Sport in the global society.
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| Contents |
THE FIRST BLACK FOOTBALLER Arthur Wharton 1865-1930 An Absence of Memory; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Foreword by Irvine Welsh; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; 1 Rising North Star: Darlington and football 1884-88; 2 The burning Black star of amateur sprinting 1885-87; 3 The long and short of Yorkshire and pedestrianism 1888-89; 4 Running, athletics and the people; 5 'The best team in the world'; 6 'Wharton for England'; 7 Another field of play: Ethnicity, identity and family |
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8 Professional footballer: Rotherham Town and Sheffield United 1889-959 'Lionised' rebel: Lancashire 1896-1902; 10 The all-rounder: Cricket, rugby and cycling; 11 The making of the sportsman; 12 Methodism, family and community in mid-nineteenth century Gold Coast; 13 Class, ethnicity and memory: The selective approach to history; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Arthur Wharton was the world's first black professional footballer, and the first African to play professional cricket in Yorkshire and Lancashire leagues. Those promoting Empire as an expression of white supremacy found him a supreme irritation, and he eventually died in poverty |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Wharton, Arthur, 1865-1930.
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| SUBJECT |
Wharton, Arthur, 1865-1930 fast |
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Soccer players -- Ghana -- Biography
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Athletes, Black -- Ghana -- Biography
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Discrimination in sports -- Great Britain
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Race discrimination -- Great Britain
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Soccer.
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Athletes, Black
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Discrimination in sports
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Race discrimination
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Soccer players
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Ghana
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136322471 |
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1136322477 |
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