Flashpoint - How a Little Known Sporting Event Fueled America s Anti Apartheid

This book provides a unique perspective on the anti-apartheid movement in the United States through its examination of a little-remembered rugby tour across the country by South Africa's national team. The tour became a flashpoint for the nation's burgeoning protests against apartheid and a test of national values and American foreign policy.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Preface: Rise up Zwide!
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Accidental Tourists: Planning for the United States Tour
Chapter 2: Starting to Play and Preparing For Battle: The Irish in South Africa, Planning to Resist in America
Chapter 3: Apart Hate: Planning to Resist the Springboks
Chapter 4: The 1981 Springbok Tour to New Zealand: A Country Divided
Chapter 5: Cloaks, Daggers, and Rugby: The Springboks in the Midwest
Chapter 6: Albany I: Facing Off in the Courts and Against the Colonials
Chapter 7: Albany II: The Test Match
Conclusion: The Long Tail of Post-1981 South African Rugby
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

Derek Charles Catsam is professor of history and the Kathlyn Cosper Dunagan Professor in the Humanities at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin where he teaches courses on race, politics, and sports in the US and South Africa. He is the author of Freedom’s Main Line: The Journey of Reconciliation and the Freedom Rides and has published extensively on the history of race and politics in the US and South Africa. Catsam is a senior research associate at Rhodes University and serves as reviews editor of Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies. Most recently, he appeared in the award-winning PBS American Experience film Freedom Riders.

Product details

• Authors: Derek Charles Catsam, Catsam Derek Charles
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9781538144695
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-4469-5
• No. of pages: 254
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, SPORTS & RECREATION / History, Rugby League, SPORTS & RECREATION / Rugby, Rugby Union, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, history of sport, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas