Week 4
Sport and Race
Football
What does McDougall tell us race and football on a global basis?
What does Darby reveal about the impact of European football on Africa?
What did Raheem Stirling and others reveal about racism in contemporary British football?
What impact has BLM had on football? Has it/Will it lead to significant change?
Class reading/media
Read the article and watch the interview with Alex Scott and Ashley Williams
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/57003222
Raheem Stirling on BLM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52959292
Read:
Ch.6 on Race, pp. 109-28 McDougall, Alan. Contested Fields : A Global History of Modern Football, University of Toronto Press, 2020. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/warw/detail.action?docID=6036509
Darby, P. (2007) ‘Out of Africa: The Exodus of Elite African Football Talent to Europe’, WorkingUSA, 10(4), pp. 443–456. doi: 10.1111/j.1743-4580.2007.00175.x.
Further reading
Alegi, Peter, and Chris Bolsmann. 2010. “From Apartheid to Unity: White Capital and Black Power in the Racial Integration of South African Football, 1976-1992.” African Historical Review 42 (1): 1. http://0-search.ebscohost.com.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edb&AN=51536495&site=eds-live.
Brett Bebber, Violence and racism in football : politics and cultural conflict in British society, 1968-9 (Pickering & Chatto | 2012)
Jon D. Bohland, Who Counts as a Real American? Dual Citizenship, Hybridity, and the U.S. Men’s National Team’ in Football and the Boundaries of History DOI https://0-doi-org.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/10.1057/978-1-349-95006-5
Cleland, J. and Cashmore, E. (2014) ‘Fans, Racism and British Football in the Twenty-First Century: The Existence of a “Colour-Blind” Ideology’, Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies, 40(4), pp. 638–654. doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2013.777524
Cleland, J. (2015). A Sociology of Football in a Global Context (1st ed.). Routledge. https://0-doi-org.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/10.4324/9780203735114
Ellis Cashmore and Jamie Cleland, Football's dark side : corruption, homophobia, violence and racism in the beautiful game 2014 (Ebook)
Darby, Paul. Africa, Football and FIFA : Politics, Colonialism and Resistance, Taylor & Francis Group, 2002. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/warw/detail.action?docID=1461079
Darby, Paul, James Esson, and Christian Ungruhe, African Football Migration: Aspirations, Experiences and Trajectories (
Farrington, N., Kilvington, D., Price, J., Saeed, A. (2012). Race, Racism and Sports Journalism. London: Routledge, https://0-doi-org.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/10.4324/9780203146309
Jon Garland and Michael Rowe, Racism and anti-racism in football (2001) Main Library (GV 944.G7)
Hassan, D., & Acton, C. (Eds.). (2018). Sport and Contested Identities: Contemporary Issues and Debates (1st ed.). Routledge. https://0-doi-org.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/10.4324/9781315523651
Kevin Hylton, Contesting ‘Race’ and Sport (2018). London: Routledge, https://0-doi-org.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/10.4324/9781315715476
Kevin Hylton, ‘”Race”, Racism and Football’ in Hughson et al., The Routledge Handbook of Football Studies (2016) [ebook]
Kilvington, D. (2016). British Asians, Exclusion and the Football Industry (1st ed.). Routledge. https://0-doi-org.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/10.4324/9781315737096
Kilvington, D. (2016). British Asians, Exclusion and the Football Industry. London: Routledge, https://0-doi-org.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/10.4324/9781315737096
Stefan Lawrence, ‘A Critical Theory analysis of the English Premier league: Confronting the declining significance of ‘race’ and racism myth’ , Ch.8. in Riechard Elliott (ed.) The English Premier League: A socio-cultural analysis (2017) [ebook]
Roberts, K., Liverpool Sectarianism: The Rise and Demise. Liverpool University Press, 2017) [Ebook]
Cricket
Topics to discussed: dominance of the West Indies cricket team in 1970s and 80s, wider issues of race in cricket
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 LancashireLink opens in a new window (BBC 4 documentary)
Key Reading
Further 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)
Frank Birbalsingh The Rise of West Indian Cricket: from colony to nation (1996)
Frank Birbalsingh, Indo-Westindian Cricket (1988)