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 articles 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 participation 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.
Author(s): David Mayall
Edition: 1
Year: 1998
Language: English
Pages: 240
Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
List of Illustrations......Page 10
List of Tables......Page 11
Sport and Ethnicity: some introductory remarks......Page 17
Nationalism and National Identity......Page 18
Ethnicity and Ethnic Identity......Page 19
Sport......Page 20
The Collection......Page 22
NOTES......Page 28
Conformity, Diversity, and Difference in Antipodean Physical Culture: The Indelible Influence of Immigration, Ethnicity, and Race during the Formative Years of Organized Sport…......Page 31
Australia’s Sporting Roots......Page 33
Established Settlers and New Immigrants......Page 34
Embracing Englishness......Page 38
Modifying Englishness......Page 39
Non-English Britons: Scots, Welsh and Cornish......Page 41
The Irish......Page 46
NESB White Immigrants: The Germans......Page 48
NESB Non-Whites: Aborigines......Page 51
NESB Non-Whites: Chinese and Pacific Islanders......Page 54
Majority/Minority Group Relations in Flux: Sport as Contested and Negotiated Cultural Terrain in Australia, c. 1788–1918......Page 58
NOTES......Page 61
Introduction......Page 67
Croatian Migrants to Australia......Page 72
NOTES......Page 80
Pierre Bourdieu and Cultural Capital......Page 85
Immigration and the Celtics......Page 89
The Celtic Composition......Page 94
The Media and Ethnicity......Page 97
NOTES......Page 98
Introduction......Page 100
The Everywhere Man and the Politics of Transcendence......Page 102
The Nowhere Man and the Politics of Racial and National Identity......Page 109
Conclusion......Page 116
NOTES......Page 117
Introduction......Page 121
National and Sporting Identity in the British Isles......Page 124
The Globalization Debate......Page 128
Themes in the Media Representation of British Rugby Union......Page 131
(i) Questions of Cultural Struggle and Identity Politics......Page 134
(ii) National and Sporting Stereotypes......Page 136
(iii) Military Metaphors and the Vocabulary of War......Page 138
Concluding Remarks......Page 139
NOTES......Page 141
Introduction......Page 145
The Irish Diaspora in Scotland: Politics and Cultural Symbolism......Page 146
Early Signs of Antagonism Towards Celtic......Page 148
Wider Reactions to the Diaspora in Scotland......Page 154
Conflict in Ireland and Scottish society......Page 157
Questions of Irish identity among the diaspora in Scotland......Page 159
A Changing Discourse......Page 160
Conclusion......Page 162
NOTES......Page 165
Introduction......Page 170
Race, Empire and the 1895 Rugby Split......Page 171
Black Players to the Fore......Page 175
Integration and Discrimination......Page 177
The Limits of Ideology......Page 182
Conclusion......Page 185
NOTES......Page 186
Introduction......Page 190
International Sport and the Construction of Identity......Page 192
The 1967 Australian Tour of Ireland......Page 196
The 1968 Meath Tour of Australia......Page 199
Reaction to the Tour......Page 202
Problems for the Future......Page 203
The Failure of Internationalism......Page 206
NOTES......Page 207
Introduction......Page 209
Hely Hutchinson Almond and ‘Lorettonianism’......Page 211
John Guthrie Kerr......Page 217
Concluding Remarks......Page 222
NOTES......Page 225
Select Bibliography......Page 229
Notes on Contributors......Page 240
Index......Page 243
