SECTION THREE: Ethnicity, Migration, Bodies and Sport Gemsīlack Women Athletes on the Margins – Jennifer H.
Immigration, Sport and the Italian Quest for Identity in the USA – Gerald R. Ways of Seeing and Playing: Zulu Stickfighting, Bodies and Race in South Africa – Benedict Carton and Robert Morrell SECTION TWO: Race and Ethnicity in Historical ContextĬricket and Minstrel Shows in Australia’s Colonial Far North: 1869-1911 – Matthew Stephen Racial Issues Beyond Black and White: The Luis Suarez Incident – Verner Møller Sport, Embodiment and Race in South Africa – Douglas Booth and John NaurightĪborigines and Australian Sport: Critical Reflections – Daryl Adair James’s Beyond a Boundary – Malcolm MacLean
James: The Study of Sport, Race and Ethnicity – Sir Hilary McD BecklesĪmbiguity within the Boundary: Re-reading C.L.R. James: Studying Race and Ethnicity in Sportīeyond C.L.R. Included also are discussions on how sport at once brings people together, shapes the identities of its participants, and reflects the continuing search for social justice. The essays, divided into four sections that include introductory comments by each editor, are written by some of the more well-known sport historians in the world and characterized by a focus on the role of culture and sport in society in the context of both political economies and the state as well as colonial and postcolonial struggles.
James, the revolutionary sociologist and writer from Trinidad who penned the famous autobiographical account of cricket titled Beyond a Boundary, this collection of essays, many of which originated at the 2010 conference on race and ethnicity in sport at the University of West Indies, Cave Hill in Barbados, cover everything from Aborigines in sport and cricket and minstrel shows in Australia to Zulu stick fighting and football and racism in northern Ireland. James brings together essays analyzing the interconnections among race, ethnicity, and sport.
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