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Sports in Postcolonial Worlds
This book explores several cultural and historical paths intertwined in the genesis and development of sport and physical activities within colonial and postcolonial contexts. As far as youth organizations and Western-based sports are concerned, the Independencies political split needs to be reconsidered, from a cultural perspective with practices overlapping spatial, chronological and epistemological borders. When looking at the variety of practices, the colonial legacies and the ensuing migration journeys through a global perspective, there is a need to understand the diverse ways of composing and building the postcolonial sport worlds. Multiculturalism (South Africa, France, Algeria), tra...
Sport and Protest in the Black Atlantic
This is the first book to focus on race, sport, protest, and the Black Atlantic. It brings together innovative scholarship on African, African-American, Afro-European, Afro-Brazilian, and Afro-Caribbean sports in a manner that speaks effectively to the diversity of the African diaspora, its history, and culture. The book explores the history of sports, including baseball, basketball, boxing, football, rugby, cricket, and track-and-field athletics to show athlete and fan protests in sport intersected with discourses of nationalism, self-fashioning, gender and masculinity, leisure and play, challenges of underdevelopment, and the idea of progress. It shows how sport in the African diaspora is a crucially important lens through which to understand the challenges, changes, and continuities of Black Atlantic history, the history of protest, and racism. This is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in sport history, social and cultural history, post-imperial history and decolonization, or the sociology of sport, race, and political protest.
Diplomatic Games
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is the nation's oldest civil rights organization, having dedicated itself to the fight for racial equality since 1909. While the group helped achieve substantial victories in the courtroom, the struggle for civil rights extended beyond gaining political support. It also required changing social attitudes. The NAACP thus worked to alter existing prejudices through the production of art that countered racist depictions of African Americans, focusing its efforts not only on changing the attitudes of the white middle class but also on encouraging racial pride and a sense of identity in the black community. Art for Equality ex...
Colonial Culture in France since the Revolution
This landmark collection by an international group of scholars and public intellectuals represents a major reassessment of French colonial culture and how it continues to inform thinking about history, memory, and identity. This reexamination of French colonial culture, provides the basis for a revised understanding of its cultural, political, and social legacy and its lasting impact on postcolonial immigration, the treatment of ethnic minorities, and national identity.
The Oxford Handbook of Sports History
Practiced and watched by billions, sport is a global phenomenon. Sport history is a burgeoning sub-field that explores sport in all forms to help answer fundamental questions that scholars examine. This volume provides a reference for sport scholars and an accessible introduction to those who are new to the sub-field.
Visualizing Empire
An exploration of how an official French visual culture normalized France’s colonial project and exposed citizens and subjects to racialized ideas of life in the empire. By the end of World War I, having fortified its colonial holdings in the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, the Indian Ocean, and Asia, France had expanded its dominion to the four corners of the earth. This volume examines how an official French visual culture normalized the country’s colonial project and exposed citizens and subjects alike to racialized ideas of life in the empire. Essays analyze aspects of colonialism through investigations into the art, popular literature, material culture, film, and exhibitions that ...
Being Disabled, Becoming a Champion
Being Disabled, Becoming a Champion is an accessible presentation of current European research on the most recent evolutions in sports for people with disabilities, demonstrating knowledge developed from the field of sports practices of people with disabilities. It covers three interrelated themes. First, it covers the different facets of the history of sports organizations set up during the 1950s for athletes with motor or intellectual impairments. The second part focuses on the athletes themselves. Voices are given to the top-level athletes in adapted sports: people with intellectual impairment; the pioneers of wheelchair racing who invented a new discipline, off-road wheelchair racing; an...
Spielfeld der Herrenmenschen
Europäisches Überlegenheitsdenken: Kolonialismus im Fußball Rassismus wird im Fußball oft auf Neonazis reduziert. Doch wer die Ursachen verstehen will, muss viel weiter zurückgehen: Kolonialmächte wie England, Frankreich, Portugal aber auch Deutschland wollten durch Sport ihre Untertanen "zivilisieren". Ihre "Rassenlehre" ist längst widerlegt, doch bis heute hält sich ein europäisches Überlegenheitsdenken. Für die Reportagen in diesem Buch war der Journalist Ronny Blaschke auf fünf Kontinenten unterwegs. Und er analysiert strukturellen Rassismus in Europa: Schwarze Menschen gelten als kraftvolle Athleten, aber als Trainer oder Vorstände erhalten sie kaum Chancen. Blaschke erklä...
Le football des immigrés
Depuis la naissance du professionnalisme en 1932, plus de 500 footballeurs algériens jouent dans le Championnat de France. D’Ali Benouna à Zinédine Zidane, qui sont ces travailleurs immigrés du sport ? Et quelles sont leurs histoires ? En croisant des archives exceptionnelles et des entretiens inédits avec une centaine d’anciens joueurs et leurs proches, Stanislas Frenkiel révèle un pan méconnu de l’immigration algérienne en France. Loin des masques du business et du spectacle, il met en lumière trois générations de footballeurs professionnels dont les carrières sportives et trajectoires sociales s’inscrivent dans les ambiguïtés et turbulences du XXe siècle : décolonisation et mondialisation, désindustrialisation et émancipation, démocratisation et professionnalisation du sport. À la suite d’une longue et passionnante enquête de terrain et plusieurs dizaines de milliers de kilomètres parcourus en France et en Algérie, l’auteur dévoile un livre de référence sur l’immigration dans le football. Il est issu du remaniement approfondi de sa thèse de doctorat.
