Ethnicity, sport, identity : struggles for status / / editors, J.A. Mangan, Andrew Ritchie

• Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.483
• Soggetto topico: Discrimination in sports; Racism in sports
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: ManganJ. A RitchieAndrew
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 ; 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 ; 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
• Sommario/riassunto: The struggle for status within sport is a microcosm of the struggle for rights, freedom and recognition within society. Injustices within sport often reflect larger injustices in society as a whole. In South Africa, for example, sport has been crucial in advancing the rights and liberty of oppressed groups. The geographical and chronological range of the essays in Ethnicity, Sport, Identity reveal the global role of sport in this advance. The collection examines cases of discrimination directed at individuals or groups, resulting in their exclusion from full participation in
• Titolo autorizzato: Ethnicity, sport, identity
• ISBN: 9786610253944; 0-203-49563-2; 1-135-75588-4; 1-280-25394-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450716103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Sport in the global society.