Why Minorities Play Or Dont Play Soccer

Download or read book Why Minorities Play or Don't Play Soccer written by Kausik Bandyopadhyay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soccer, the most popular mass spectator sport in the world, has always remained a marker of identities of various sorts. Behind the façade of its obvious entertainment aspect, it has proved to be a perpetuating reflector of nationalism, ethnicity, community or communal identity, and cultural specificity. Naturally therefore, the game is a complex representative of minorities’ status especially in countries where minorities play a crucial role in political, social, cultural or economic life. The question is also important since in many nations success in sports like soccer has been used as an instrument for assimilation or to promote an alternative brand of nationalism. Thus, Jewish teams in pre-Second World War Europe were set up to promote the idea of a muscular Jewish identity. Similarly, in apartheid South Africa, soccer became the game of the black majority since it was excluded from the two principal games of the country – rugby and cricket. In India, on the other hand, the Muslim minorities under colonial rule appropriated soccer to assert their community-identity. The book examines why in certain countries, minorities chose to take up the sport while in others they backed away from participating in the game or, alternatively, set up their own leagues and practised self-exclusion. The book examines European countries like the Netherlands, England and France, the USA, Africa, Australia and the larger countries of Asia – particularly India. This book was previously published as a special issue of Soccer and Society.

Download or read book Black People Don't Play Soccer? written by Robert Woodard and published by . This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion that Black people dont play soccer is obviously ludicrous, but misconceptions and stereotypes incorrectly label soccer as a predominately white suburban sport. People of African descent represent a growing percentage of the millions of Americas soccer players. However, soccers impact in the Black community lags far behind traditional American sports. The obvious question is why African-Americans view soccer so differently than Black people in other cultures and how it can change. The book discusses: The historical, economic and cultural reasons behind Black Americas apathy towards soccer; how media coverage and bias hinder soccers progress; the legacy of players of African descent who made soccer history; how grater participation by the Black community will benefit Major League Soccer and the US National Team, both economically and competitively

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Download or read book You Must be a Basketball Player written by Anthony Stewart and published by Fernwood Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documenting a black professor's account of his own professional experience, this study describes what it feels like to be a nonwhite academic in one of the "big three" disciplines in the humanities--English, history, and philosophy. Challenging the notion that today's Canadian universities have successfully addressed the issues of diversity, this argument warns that if professors of color cannot see academia as a liberal bastion, it can only be even more forbidding for students of color. Demonstrating how integration policies are manipulated when it comes to hiring visible minorities in the university, this reference highlights aspects such as merit that are commonly used to deny employment. Positing that institutions should deliver on their stated policies instead of hiding behind formalities, this emboldened examination will surprise those inside and outside of the academic field.

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