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Cricket and Race (Hardcover)
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Cricket and Race (Hardcover)
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Nominated for Cricket Society Book of the Year Award 2002.
Winner of the 2001 Lord Aberdare Prize for Sports History.
Any attempt to understand the nature of social relations and
cultural identities in modern Britain must consider the
significance of sport. Sports have had a crucial role in sustaining
national consciousness. Because cricket has so often been regarded
as a symbol of Englishness, especially amongst those with economic
and political influence, the role of race in the sport provides
penetrating insights into English national identity, from the
belief in racial superiority underlying imperial expansion through
to more recent debates about sporting links with South Africa, and
racial animosities at test matches.
This book examines cricket and race in England over the past
century and a half. The author considers how far and in what
respects cricket has reflected the racist assumptions of whites,
and its role as an arena for ethnic conflict as well as
understanding and harmony in England. In the first half of the
twentieth century, commentary on the playing abilities of West
Indian cricketers was often superficially laudatory but
condescending in tone, and argued that racial characteristics would
limit their achievements as players. More recently, campaigns to
combat racism in the sport and the contributions of
African-Caribbeans and Asians to recreational cricket show how
central cricket is to appraisals of the cultural factors that have
shaped ethnic relations. This absorbing book provides an incisive
overview of the interconnections among cricket, race and culture.
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