week4
‘Blackwash’
Topics to discussed: dominance of the West Indies in 1970s and 80s, wider issues of race in cricket – film screening Fire in Babylon
Questions:
How had black players been treated in world cricket prior to 1970?
What impact did the 1976 WI tour of England have a) in England, b) in the Caribbean, and c) on world cricket?
How were the West Indies able to maintain their dominance?
TV - Cricket Calypso (1986 documentary) ; Viv Richards King of Cricket (1987 documentary); Race and Pace - The West Indians in East Lancashire (BBC 4 documentary)
Reading
Hilary Beckles, The development of West Indies Cricket (2 vols) (1998)
Hilary Beckles, An area of conquest: popular democracy and West Indies Cricket supremacy (1994)
Hilary Beckles and Brian Stoddary, Liberation Cricket: West Indies Cricket Culture (1995)
Hilary Beckles, The detachment of West Indian Cricket from the Nationalist Scaffold in Cambridge Companion of Cricket [library e-book]
Frank Birbalsingh The Rise of West Indian Cricket: from colony to nation (1996)
Frank Birbalsingh, Indo-Westindian Cricket (1988)