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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814113403321

Titolo

Sporting nationalisms : identity, ethnicity, immigration, and assimilation / / edited by Mike Cronin and David Mayall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Portland, Or. : , : F. Cass, , 1998

ISBN

1-135-77708-X

1-135-77709-8

1-280-10529-1

0-203-01324-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 p.)

Collana

Cass series--sport in the global society, , 1368-9789 ; ; 6

Altri autori (Persone)

CroninMike

MayallDavid

Disciplina

306.4/83

Soggetti

Nationalism and sports

Ethnicity

Sports - Sociological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Special issue of Immigrants & minorities, Volume  173, no. 1, March 1998.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-218) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Sport and Ethnicity: some introductory remarks; Conformity, Diversity, and Difference in Antipodean Physical Culture: The Indelible Influence of Immigration, Ethnicity, and Race during the Formative Years of Organized Sport…; Croatia: Community, Conflict and Culture: The Role of Soccer Clubs in Migrant Identity; Basketball as Cultural Capital: The Original Celtics in Early Twentieth-Century New York City

Race, Nation and Authenticity of Identity: Interrogating the 'Everywhere' Man (Michael Jordan) and the 'Nowhere' Man (Ben Johnson)Global Sports and Patriot Games: Rugby Union and National Identity in a United Sporting Kingdom since 1945; Sport and the Contestation of Cultural and Ethnic Identities in Scottish Society; Racial Minorities in a Marginalized Sport: Race, Discrimination and Integration in British Rugby League Football; 'When the World Soccer Cup is Played on Roller Skates': The Atttempt to Make G



Sommario/riassunto

This volume examines the ways in which sport shapes the experiences of various immigrant and minority groups and in particular, looks at the relationship between sport, ethnic identity and ethnic relations.