By Ben Carrington
Opposite to the preferred trust that recreation is an area mostly loose from the corrosive results of racism, this ebook argues that racism is obvious all through British game. From taking part in fields and boardrooms of activities organizations, to the places of work of activities coverage makers and the media, this publication breaks new floor in displaying how discourses of 'race' and state proceed to pervade our carrying life.
Looking at quite a number activities, together with soccer, rugby league and cricket, this ebook covers key themes such as:
* British nationalism and nationalist ideology
* racial technology and the pictures of Asian and black physicality
* game, racism and the law
* black feminism and the problems of race, gender and sport
* the position of the media in perpetuating and not easy racial stereotypes.
Challenging the existing liberal view that game is one zone of society the place 'good race-relations' are constructed, this e-book bargains a wealth of analysis fabric, and a powerful theoretical point of view on modern British game. it is going to for this reason be of significant curiosity to sociologists, activities experiences scholars, recreation policy-makers and someone with an curiosity in modern British game.
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Emma Lindsey’s chapter helps us to better understand these reluctances and the ways in which racism is expressed and dealt with in this field. Chris Searle’s customarily polemical essay concludes the book. R. James’s own intellectual work and praxis, demonstrates the necessity for academic work to remain engaged with understanding the world as a precondition to changing it, and not, as many social theorists seem to advocate these days, as a way of dissolving themselves from the material world. Searle shows clearly how James’s seminal text Beyond a Boundary (first published in 1963) still resonates as a powerful example of how sport, and in this instance cricket, is not a cultural oasis, separate from the ‘real world’, but deeply implicated in societies’ own structures and inequalities.
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