352 Pages
by
Routledge
356 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
The struggle for status within sport is a microcosm of the struggle for rights, freedom and recognition within society. Injustices within sport often reflect larger injustices in society as a whole. In South Africa, for example, sport has been crucial in advancing the rights and liberty of oppressed groups. The geographical and chronological range of the essays in Ethnicity, Sport, Identity... Read more
1. The League of American Wheelmen, Major Taylor and the 'Color Question' in the United States in the 1890s 2. 'Curt Flood Stood Up for Us': The Quest to Break Down Racial Barriers and Structural Inequality in Major League Baseball 3. Jim Crow Strikes Out: Branch Rickey and the Struggle for Integration in American Baseball 4. Personal Calvaries: Sports in Philadelphia's African-American Communities, 1920-60 5. New Traditions, Old Struggles: Organized Sport for Johannesburg's Africans, 1920-50 6. Deconstructing 'Indianness': Cricket and the Articulation of Indian Identities in Durban, 1900-32 7. Cricket in India: Representative Playing Field to Restrictive Preserve 8. 'Physical Beings': Stereotypes, Sport and the 'Physical Education' of New Zealand Maori 9. Institutionalized Discrimination against Japan-Born Korean Athletes 10. Cricket and Calypso: Cultural Representation and Social History in the West Indies 11. From the Gridiron and the Boxing Ring to the Cinema Screen: The African-American Athlete in pre-1950 Cinema 12. Snowshoeing and Lacrosse: Canada's Nineteenth-Century 'National Games'
Biography
Ritchie, Andrew
