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Sports in Africa, Past and Present.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cleveland, Todd.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sports--Sociological aspects.
- Sports--Social aspects.
- Sports.
- Sports--Afrique--History.
- Sports--Social aspects--Africa.
- Sports--Aspect sociologique.
- Sports--Africa--History.
- Africa.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (313 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- Through the prism of sports and from a range of scholarly perspectives, this anthology offers insight into the varied and shiftingexperiences of African athletes, fans, communities, and postcolonial states.
- Contents:
- 6: Nigeria, Women's Football, and Resisting the Second Fiddle
- FOUR: Crossing Racial Boundaries
- 7: Beyond South Africa's Draconian Racial Segregation
- 8: Racing out of the Shadows
- FIVE: On the Margins: Informal Engagements with Sports
- 9: English Premier League Football Kiosks and the Emergence of Communal Television Viewing as a Sporting Practice
- 10: The Gambling Games
- SIX: African Sports Migration
- 11: African Footballers' Migration to Europe
- 12: Postcareer Precarity
- SEVEN: Sporting Biographies
- 13: Black Physical Culture and Weight Lifting in South Africa
- 14: Sprinting Past the End of Empire
- EIGHT: The Durable Impact of the Past: Sporting Legacies and Heritage
- 15: Rugby Transformation as Alibi
- 16: No Place of Honor
- 17: The Gift of a Running Shoe
- ABOUT THE EDITORSAND CONTRIBUTORS
- INDEX
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Introduction
- ONE: Historiography of South African Sports
- 1: Reflections on Pathways to the Writing of South African Sports History
- TWO: African Sports Pedagogy
- 2: The Final Frontier: African Sports Studies in the Classroom
- 3: African Sports in the Liberal Arts Classroom
- 4: On Teaching South African Sports History at a US University
- THREE: Resisting Discrimination and Forging Identity through Sports
- 5: "The Gist of the [Game] Is Played Out on theEdges of the Cricket Boundary"
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780821446966
- 0821446967
- OCLC:
- 1196199654
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