Sporting Nationalisms: Identity, Ethnicity, Immigration and Assimilation

by Cronin; Mike

• ISBN13: 9780714644493
• ISBN10: 0714644498
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1998-10-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This volume examines the ways in which sport shapes the experiences of various immigrant and minority groups and in particular, looks at the relationship between sport, ethnic identity and ethnic relations. The essays in this volume are concerned primarily with British, American and Australian sporting traditions and the themes covered include the consolidation of ethnic identity in host societies through participant immigrant sports and exclusive sporting organizations, assimilation into "host" societies through participation in indigenous, national sports, and the construction by outsiders of separate ethnic identities according to sporting criteria.

Table of Contents

Sport and ethnicity - some introductory remarks

Conformity, diversity and difference in antipodean physical culture - the indelible influence of immigration, ethnicity and race during the formative years of organised sport in Australia, c. 1788-1918

Croatia - community, conflict and culture - the role of soccer clubs in migrant identity

Basketball as cultural capital - the originals Celtics in early 20th century New York City

Race, nation and authenticity of identity -interrogating the "everywhere" man (Michael Jordan) and the "nowhere" man (Ben Johnson)

Global sports and patriot games - Rugby Union and national identity in a united sporting kingdom since 1945

Sport and the contestation of cultural and ethnic identities in Scottish society

Racial minorities in a marginalised sport - race, discrimination and integration in British Rugby League Football

"When the World Soccer Cup is played on roller skates" - the attempt to make Gaelic games international - the Meath-Australia matches of 1967-68

Braveheart betrayed? cultural cloning for colonial careers

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