Beyond C. L. R. James: Shifting Boundaries of Race and Ethnicity in Sports

by John Nauright (Editor), Alan G. Gobley (Editor), David K. Wiggins (Editor)

Overview

Beyond C. L. R. James brings together essays analyzing the intercon¬nections among race, ethnicity, and sport. Published in memory of C. L. R. 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. 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. 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781557286499
Publisher:	University of Arkansas Press
Publication date:	11/01/2014
Pages:	393
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 5.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

John Nauright is the author of Soccer Around the World: A Cultural Guide and Long Run to Freedom: Sport, Culture and Identities in South Africa.

Alan G. Cobley is the author of The Rules of the Game: Struggles in Black Recreation and Social Welfare Policy in South Africa.

David K. Wiggins is the coeditor of Rivals: Legendary Matchups That Made Sports History and Out of the Shadows: A Biographical History of African American Athletes.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface ix

Preface xi

I Studying Race and Ethnicity in Sport

Introduction John Nauright 3

1 Beyond C. L. R. James's Beyond a Boundary: From Liberation and Nationalism to Globalization and Commodification in the West Indies Sir Hilary McD. Beckles 7

2 I Ambiguity within the Boundary: Rereading C. L. R. James's Beyond a Boundary Malcolm Maclean 17

3 Embodied Identities: Sport and Race in South Africa Douglas Booth John Nauright 41

4 Indigenous Australians and Sport: Critical Reflections Daryl Adair 63

5 Beyond Black and White: A Study of the Luis Suarez-Patrice Evra Controversy Verner Møller 77

II Race and Ethnicity in Historical Context

Introduction David K. Wiggins 95

6 On Display: Cricket and Minstrel Shows in Australia's Colonial Far North, 1869-1911 Matthew Stephen 99

7 Competitive Combat, Warrior Bodies, and Zulu Sport: The Gender Relations of Stick Fighting in South Africa, 1800-1930 Benedict Carton Robert Morrell 125

8 Ethnicity in Black and White: Immigration, Sport, and the Italian Quest for Identity in the United States Gerald R. Gems 145

9 "The Tuskegee Flash" and "the Slender Harlem Stroker": Black Women Athletes on the Margins Jennifer H. Lansbury 159

III Ethnicity, Migration, Bodies, and Sport

Introduction John Nauright

10 Tamales, Tapetes, and Basketball: Signs of Oaxacan Ethnicity in the United States Charles Fruehling Springwood 183

11 Sport in Migrant Communities: Transnational Spaces and Gender Relations Gertrud Pfister 195

12 Masculinities beyond Otherness: Cricket, Gender, and Ethnicity in Oslo, Norway Thomas Michael Walle 211

13 Ethnicity, National Identity, and Cricket in Contemporary Trinidad and Tobago Anand Rampersad 239

IV Crossing Boundaries/Maintaining Boundaries

Introduction Alan G. Cobley 255

14 Into the Great White Yonder: Stabilizing and Transcending Whiteness in Alternative Sports Michael Atkinson Kevin Young 259

15 A Unique Social Tapestry: Football, Sectarianism, and Racism in Northern Ireland David Hassan Ken McHue 279

16 "Who Do 'They' Cheer For?" Cricket, Diaspora, Hybridity, and Divided Loyalties among British Asians Thomas Fletcher 293

17 Usain Bolt, Celebration at Ninety: A Spatial Analysis of the Beijing 2008 Men's 100-Meter Final James A. McBean Jr. Michael Friedman Collie Batts 313

Notes 331

List of Contributors 387

Index 395

Editorial Reviews

An international group of scholars, analyzing a wide range of societies and subcultures, demonstrates how the study of sport provides new and deeper insights into race, ethnicity, gender, assimilation, and intergroup relations. The book, which applies social science theories and methods, will be highly useful to researchers and students in many disciplines.” —Stephen H. Norwood, Antisemitism and the American Far Left, The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower, and Real Football

“Illuminating …. I learned a lot from these monographs, which were a pleasure to read. I applaud the editors for putting together this excellent collection.”

—Steven A. Riess in Journal of Sport History, Fall 2015

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