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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

1. The League of American Wheelmen, Major Taylor and the 'color question' in the United States in the 1890s / Andrew Ritchie -- 2. 'Curt Flood stood up for us' : the quest to break down racial barriers and structural inequality in Major League baseball / Michael E. Lomax -- 3. Jim Crow strikes out : Branch Rickey and the struggle for integration in American baseball / Stuart Knee -- 4. Personal calvaries : sports in Philadelphia's African-American communities, 1920-60 / Robert Gregg -- 5. New traditions, old struggles : organized sport for Johannesburg's Africans, 1920-50 / Cecile Badenhorst -- 6. Deconstructing 'Indianness' : cricket and the articulation of Indian identities in Durban, 1900-32 / Goolam Vahed -- 7. Cricket in India : representative playing field to restrictive preserve / Boria Majumdar -- 8. 'Physical beings' : stereotypes, sport and the 'physical education' of New Zealand Maori / Brendan Hokowhitu -- 9. Institutionalized discrimination against Japan-born Korean athletes : from overt to covert discrimination / Haruo Nogawa -- 10. Cricket and Calypso : cultural representation and social history in the West Indies / Douglas Midgett -- 11. From the gridiron and the boxing ring to the cinema screen : the African- American athlete in pre-1950 cinema / Charlene Regester -- 12. Snowshoeing and lacrosse : Canada's nineteenth-century 'national games' / Gillian Poulter.

This text deals with discrimination directed at those excluded from full participation in sport and the consequent struggle through sport for inclusion, recognition and respect. It deals also with sport as a source of cohesion between individuals and groups from persecuted ethnic minorities.

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