Sport: Race, Ethnicity and Identity - Building Global Understanding

List of contents

Foreword - Building global understanding: ethnocultural diversity and sport Daryl Adair 1. ‘The race for supremacy’: the politics of ‘white’ sport in South Africa, 1870 – 1910 Dean Allen 2. History and its racial legacies: quotas in South African rugby and cricket Christopher Merrett, Colin Tatz and Daryl Adair 3 Around the world: problematizing the Harlem Globetrotters as cold war warriors Damion Thomas 4 The televised sport ‘monkey trial’: ‘race’ and the politics of post-colonial cricket David Rowe 5. International development or white man’s burden? The IAAF’s Regional Development Centres and regional sporting assistance James Connor and Melissa McEwen 6. In-groups, out-groups and contested identities in Scottish international football Joseph M. Bradley 7. Ethnicity, structure and globalization: an argument about Association football in Australia, 1958 – 2010 Roy Hay

Summary

This book discusses issues of diversity, capacity and equity in the colourful world of global sport and addresses international dimensions of sport, commonality and difference, as well as the special circumstances of sport and social relations in particular places. This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Society.

Product details

• Authors: Daryl Adair
• Assisted by: Daryl Adair (Editor), Adair Daryl (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.04.2015
• EAN: 9781138852426
• ISBN: 978-1-138-85242-6
• No. of pages: 118
• Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; SPORTS & RECREATION / General, Society & culture: general, Sociology: sport and leisure, Society and culture: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity