Sport: Race, Ethnicity and Identity
Sport has long been a paradoxical environment with respect to issues of race, ethnicity and identity. For much of the 20th century, sports around the world were enclaves of difference. Whites and non-whites, for example, were separated on the sports field as they were in many ways off the field. Today sport is much more inclusive, with athletic ability of greater importance than skin colour or ancestry. Yet enmity and antagonism still appear in sport via instances of racial vilification or hostility between some groups. Other problems include the relative absence of minorities from positions of power and influence in sport, as well as folkloric assumptions about athletic ability based upon stereotypes about race or ethnic background.
This book discusses issues of diversity, capacity and equity in the colourful world of global sport. A panoramic approach, covering race, ethnicity and identity is consistent with the contemporary global migration of professional athletes, as well as the multi-cultural contexts of sport in various regions. This collection of essays therefore addresses international dimensions of sport, commonality and difference, as well as the special circumstances of sport and social relations in particular places.
This book was previously published as a special issue of Sport in Society.
Daryl Adair earned a PhD in Australian history from the Flinders University of South Australia in 1994. Since then he has researched and taught sport history at De Montfort University Leicester and the University of Queensland, then added sport media and sport management to his repertoire at the University of Canberra. He is currently an Associate Professor of Sport Management in the UTS Business School at the University of Technology, Sydney.
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SPORT IN THE GLOBAL SOCIETY CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES
Series Editor: Boria Majumdar
SPORT: RACE, ETHNICITY AND IDENTITY
Building Global Understanding
Sport in the Global Society Contemporary Perspectives
Series Editor: Boria Majumdar
The social, cultural (including media) and political study of sport is an expanding area of scholarship and related research. While this area has been well served by the Sport in the Global Society series, the surge in quality scholarship over the last few years has necessitated the creation of Sport in the Global Society: Contemporary Perspectives. The series will publish the work of leading scholars in fields as diverse as sociology, cultural studies, media studies, gender studies, cultural geography and history, political science and political economy. If the social and cultural study of sport is to receive the scholarly attention and readership it warrants, a cross-disciplinary series dedicated to taking sport beyond the narrow confines of physical education and sport science academic domains is necessary. Sport in the Global Society: Contemporary Perspectives will answer this need.
Titles in the Series
Australian Sport
Antipodean Waves of Change
Edited by Kristine Toohey and Tracy Taylor
Australias Asian Sporting Context
1920s and 1930s
Edited by Sean Brawley and Nick Guoth
Critical Support for Sport
Bruce Kidd
Disability in the Global Sport Arena
A Sporting Chance
Edited by Jill M. Clair
Diversity and Division Race, Ethnicity and Sport in Australia
Christopher J. Hallinan
Documenting the Beijing Olympics
Edited by D. P. Martinez and Kevin Latham
Football in Brazil
Edited by Martin Curi
Football Supporters and the Commercialisation of Football
Comparative Responses across Europe
Edited by Peter Kennedy and David Kennedy
Footballs Relationship with Art: The Beautiful Game?
John E. Hughson
Forty Years of Sport and Social Change, 1968-2008
To Remember is to Resist
Edited by Russell Field and Bruce Kidd
Global Perspectives on Football in Africa
Visualising the Game
Edited by Susann Baller, Giorgio Miescher and Raffaele Poli
Global Sport Business
Community Impacts of Commercial Sport
Edited by Hans Westerbeek
Governance, Citizenship and the New European Football Championships
The European Spectacle
Edited by Wolfram Manzenreiter and Georg Spitaler
Indigenous People, Race Relations and Australian Sport
Edited by Christopher J. Hallinan and Barry Judd
Perspectives on Sport and Music
Edited by Anthony Bateman
Soccer in the Middle East
Edited by Issam Khalidi and Alon Raab
South Africa and the Global Game
Football, Apartheid and Beyond
Edited by Peter Alegi and Chris Bolsmann
Sport: Race, Ethnicity and Identity
Building Global Understanding
Edited by Daryl Adair
Sport and the Community
Edited by Allan Edwards and David Hassan
Sport, Culture and Identity in the State of Israel
Edited by Yair Galily and Amir Ben-Porat
Sport in Australian National Identity
Kicking Goals
Tony Ward
Sport in the City
Cultural Connections
Edited by Michael Sam and John E. Hughson
The Changing Face of Cricket
From Imperial to Global Game
Edited by Dominic Malcolm, Jon Gemmell and Nalin Mehta
The Consumption and Representation of Lifestyle Sports
Edited by Belinda Wheaton
The Containment of Soccer in Australia
Fencing Off the World Game
Edited by Christopher J. Hallinan and John E. Hughson
The Flame Relay and the Olympic Movement
John J. MacAloon
