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Sports in Africa, Past and Present
Title
Sports in Africa, Past and Present / edited by Todd Cleveland, Tarminder Kaur, Gerard Akindes.
ISBN
9780821446966
9780821424254
9780821424513
Publication
Athens : Ohio University Press, 2020.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2022
Copyright Notice Date
©2020.
Physical Description
1 online resource (256 pages).
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Summary
Through the prism of sports and from a range of scholarly perspectives, this anthology offers insight into the varied and shiftingexperiences of African athletes, fans, communities, and postcolonial states.
Variant and related titles
Project Muse books annual backfile collection 2022.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 17, 2023
Contents
Intro
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Introduction
ONE: Historiography of South African Sports
1: Reflections on Pathways to the Writing of South African Sports History
TWO: African Sports Pedagogy
2: The Final Frontier: African Sports Studies in the Classroom
3: African Sports in the Liberal Arts Classroom
4: On Teaching South African Sports History at a US University
THREE: Resisting Discrimination and Forging Identity through Sports
5: "The Gist of the [Game] Is Played Out on theEdges of the Cricket Boundary"
14: Sprinting Past the End of Empire
EIGHT: The Durable Impact of the Past: Sporting Legacies and Heritage
15: Rugby Transformation as Alibi
16: No Place of Honor
17: The Gift of a Running Shoe
ABOUT THE EDITORSAND CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
6: Nigeria, Women's Football, and Resisting the Second Fiddle
FOUR: Crossing Racial Boundaries
7: Beyond South Africa's Draconian Racial Segregation
8: Racing out of the Shadows
FIVE: On the Margins: Informal Engagements with Sports
9: English Premier League Football Kiosks and the Emergence of Communal Television Viewing as a Sporting Practice
10: The Gambling Games
SIX: African Sports Migration
11: African Footballers' Migration to Europe
12: Postcareer Precarity
SEVEN: Sporting Biographies
13: Black Physical Culture and Weight Lifting in South Africa
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
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