Pitch Battles - Sport, Racism and Resistance

#BlackLivesMatter protests and campaigns for gender equality highlight how systemic racism and inequality have for so long been inextricably intertwined with sport. No more so than the 'Stop the Seventy Tour' campaign led by Peter Hain which forced the unprecedented cancellation of the whites-only South African cricket tour of England in 1970.

List of contents

1. 'Hain Stopped Play'

2. Empire and the British roots of sports apartheid

3. A matter of life and death: Sport and rebellion

4. SANROC in exile: Intensifying the sports boycott

5. SACOS and the revival of the sports struggle inside South Africa

6. Preparing to govern: Struggle, disjuncture and new strategies for sport in South Africa

7. Sport and nation-building: The final push for national liberation and democracy, 1989-96

8.  Making sense of sport and globalisation today

Epilogue 

About the author

By Peter Hain and Andre Odendaal

Summary

#BlackLivesMatter protests and campaigns for gender equality highlight how systemic racism and inequality have for so long been inextricably intertwined with sport. No more so than the 'Stop the Seventy Tour' campaign led by Peter Hain which forced the unprecedented cancellation of the whites-only South African cricket tour of England in 1970.

Additional text

Stopping the 1970 cricket tour confronted white South Africa with the necessity to end racism in cricket.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Hain, Hain Peter, Andre Odendaal, Odendaal Andre
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2021
• EAN: 9781786615220
• ISBN: 978-1-78661-522-0
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Illustrations: 15 BW Illustrations
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, Republic of South Africa, Politics & government, Sociology: sport & leisure, Sociology: sport and leisure, Politics and government, SPORTS & RECREATION / Cultural & Social Aspects