ISBN:
0714655740
,
0714684589
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (283 p)
,
ill., ports
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Sport in the global society
Series Statement:
Sport in the Global Society Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Ethnicity, Sport, Identity : Struggles for Status
DDC:
306.483
Keywords:
Racism in sports
;
Discrimination in sports
;
Racism in sports
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
This text deals with discrimination directed at those excluded from full participation in sport and the consequent struggle through sport for inclusion, recognition and respect. It deals also with sport as a source of cohesion between individuals and groups from persecuted ethnic minorities
Description / Table of Contents:
Front Cover; Ethnicity, Sport, Identity; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Series Editors Foreword; Prologue; 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
Description / Table of Contents:
5 New Traditions, Old Struggles: Organized Sport for Johannesburg's Africans, 1920-506 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 Māori; 9 Institutionalized Discrimination against Japan-born Korean Athletes: From Overt to Covert Discrimination; 10 Cricket and Calypso: Cultural Representation and Social History in the West Indies
Description / Table of Contents:
11 From the Gridiron and the Boxing Ring to the Cinema Screen: The African-American Athlete in pre-1950 Cinema12 Snowshoeing and Lacrosse: Canada's Nineteenth-Century 'National Games'; Epilogue; Select Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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