Sport : race, ethnicity and identity : building global understanding / edited by Daryl Adair.

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.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Sport in the global society. Contemporary perspectives.
Other Authors: Adair, Daryl
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
Series:Sport in the global society. Contemporary perspectives.
Subjects:
Racism in sports.
Sports > Sociological aspects.
Physical Description:v, 117 pages ; 26 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Foreword: building global understanding: ethnocultural diversity and sport
  • 1. "The race for supremacy": the politics of "white" sport in South Africa, 1870-1910
  • 2. History and its racial legacies: quotas in South African rugby and cricket
  • 3. Around the world: problematizing the Harlem Globetrotters as cold war warriors
  • 4. The televised sport "monkey trial": "race" and the politics of post-colonial cricket
  • 5. International development or white man's burden? The IAAF's Regional Development Centres and regional sporting assistance
  • 6. In-groups, out-groups and contested identities in Scottish international football
  • 7. Ethnicity, structure and globalization: an argument about association football in Australia, 1958-2010.