The struggle for status within sport is a microcosm of the
struggle for rights, freedom and recognition within society.
Injustices within sport often reflect larger injustices in society
as a whole. In South Africa, for example, sport has been crucial in
advancing the rights and liberty of oppressed groups. The
geographical and chronological range of the essays in Ethnicity,
Sport, Identity reveal the global role of sport in this
advance.
The collection examines cases of discrimination directed at
individuals or groups, resulting in their exclusion from full
participation in sport and their consequent struggle for inclusion.
It shows how ethnic and national identity are sources of social
cohesion and political assertion within sport, and it illustrates
the manner in which sport has served to project ethnicity in
various, often contradictory ways. It depicts sport as an agent of
conservatism and radicalism, superiority and subordination,
confidence and lack of confidence, and as a source of
disenfranchisement and enfranchisement. That sport has been, and
continues to be, a potent means of both ethnic restriction and
release can no longer be ignored.
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