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The First Black Footballer - Arthur Wharton 1865-1930: An Absence of Memory (Paperback, annotated edition)
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The First Black Footballer - Arthur Wharton 1865-1930: An Absence of Memory (Paperback, annotated edition)
Series: Sport in the Global Society
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Arthur Wharton was the world's first black professional footballer
and 100 yards world record holder, and was probably the first
African to play professional cricket in the Yorkshire and
Lancashire leagues. His achievements were accomplished against the
backdrop of Africa's forced colonization by European regimes. But
while Arthur was beating the best on the tracks and fields of
Britain, the peoples of the continent of his birth were being
recast as lesser human beings. The tall Ghanaian was an extreme
irritation to many white supremacists because his education and
sporting triumphs refuted their theories. In the late Victorian
era, when Britain's economic and political power reached its zenith
and when the dominant ideas of the age labelled all blacks as
inferior, it was simply not expedient to proclaim the exploits of
an African sportsman. This shaped the way Wharton was forgotten.
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