Sport and Apartheid South Africa (eBook, ePUB)

Histories of Politics, Power, and Protest
Redaktion: Sikes, Michelle M.; Llewellyn, Matthew P.; Rider, Toby C.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

As athletes of today grapple with how to use their public platforms to fight for activist causes, this book examines a set of longer histories of sport, 'race', and activism. It seeks to uncover new historical aspects of apartheid and sport, challenge myths, and rethink dominant narratives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000488524
• Artikelnr.: 62641327

Autorenporträt

Michelle M. Sikes is Assistant Professor in the Departments of Kinesiology, African Studies, and History at Pennsylvania State University. She received her D.Phil. from the University of Oxford. Prior to coming to Penn State, Michelle held positions at the University of Cape Town and Stellenbosch University in South Africa. Toby C. Rider is Associate Professor in the Department of Kinesiology at California State University, Fullerton. He is the author of Cold War Games: Propaganda, the Olympics, and U.S. Foreign Policy (2016), and the co-director of the Center for Sociocultural Sport and Olympic Research. Matthew P. Llewellyn is Professor in the Department of Kinesiology at California State University, Fullerton. He is the author of The Rise and Fall of Olympic Amateurism (2016), and is currently the co-director of the Center for Sociocultural Sport and Olympic Research and editor of the Journal of Olympic Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Sport in a Global Landscape of Anti-Apartheid Dissent: South African Histories from Within and Beyond 2. Racing on the Rand: Black Competitive Cycling around Johannesburg
1930-1960 3. Apartheid Mountaineering: Race
Politics
and the History of the University of Cape Town Mountain and Ski Club
1933-1969 4. From Nairobi to Baden-Baden: African Politics
the International Olympic Committee
and Early Efforts to Censure Apartheid South Africa 5. The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend? A Clash of Anti-Apartheid Tactics and Targets in the Olympic Movement of the Early 1960s 6. Experimental Tactics on an Uneven Playing Field: Multinational Football and the Apartheid Project during the 1970s 7. White's Gambit in the Middle Game: Chess
Apartheid
and South Africa's Sporting Isolation in the 1970s 8. Foster v. Fourie: Race
Politics
and Betrayal in Apartheid South Africa 9. Double Standards: South Africa
British Rugby
and the Moscow Olympics 10. Barbarians
Bridge Builders
and Boycott: The British Sports Council's Fact-Finding Mission to South Africa 11. Fractured Fandom and Paradoxical Passions: Explaining Support for New Zealand All Black Rugby Teams in South Africa
1960-2018 12. Beyond Master Narratives: Local Sources and Global Perspectives on Sport
Apartheid
and Liberation