identity, ethnicity, immigration, and assimilation /
edited by Mike Cronin and David Mayall.
Portland, OR :
F. Cass,
1998.
1 online resource (xiii, 226 pages) :
illustrations
Sport in the global society,
1368-9789
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-218) and index.
Sports and ethnicity : some introductory remarks / Mike Cronin and David Mayall -- Conformity, diversity and difference in antipodean physical culture : the indelible influence of immigration, ethnicity and race during the formative years of organized sport in Australia, c1788-1918 / Daryl Adair -- Croatia : community, conflict and culture : the role of soccer clubs in migrant identity / Roy Hay -- Basketball as cultural capital : the original Celtics in early twentieth-century New York City / Murry R. Nelson -- Race, nation and authenticity of identity : interrograting the 'everywhere' man (Michael Jordan) and the 'nowhere' man (Ben Johnson) / Steven J. Jackson, David L. Andrews and Cheryl Cole -- Global sports and patriot games : Rugby Union and national identity in a united sporting kingdom since 1945 / Joseph Maguire and Jason Tuck -- Sport and the contestation of cultural and ethnic identities in Scottish society / Joseph M. Bradley -- Racial minorities in a marginalized sport : race, discrimination and integration in British Rugby League football / Tony Collins -- 'When the World Soccer Cup is played on roller skates' : the attempt to make Gaelic Games international : the Meath-Australia matches of 1967-68 / Mike Cronin -- Braveheart betrayed? : Cultural cloning for colonial careers / J.A. Mangan.
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This collection 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.