Liberation cricket : West Indies cricket culture
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Liberation cricket : West Indies cricket culture
（Sport, society, and politics）
Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1995
- pbk.
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Of the global community of cricketers, the West Indians are, arguably, the most well-known and feared. This book shows how this tradition of cricketing excellence and leadership emerged, and how it contributed to the rise of West Indian nationalism and independence. The essayists argue that cricket mirrors the anti-colonial tensions and ideological and social conflicts over race and class that have shaped West Indian society. In consequence, it has helped promote the region's democratic ethos and fragmented nationalism. "Liberation Cricket" connects and embraces the diversity of West Indian social and political life, and suggests the relevance of cricket research for an understanding of the making of the modern West Indies.
Table of Contents
- Introduction - "Liberation cricket". Part 1 Colonialism and cultural imperialism: sport, cultural imperialism and colonial responses in the British empire - a frame-work for analysis, Brian Stoddart
- cricket, apartheid and plantation society in the West Indies at the end of the 19th century, Hilary Beckles
- race before wicket - cricket, empire and the white rose, Chris Searle
- the elite schools and cricket in Barbados - a study in colonial continuity, Keith Sandiford and Brian Stoddart. Part 2 Creolisation, ideology and popular culture: C.L.R. James' material aesthetic of cricket, Kenneth Surin
- cricket, carnival and street culture in the Caribbean, Richard Burton
- West Indian cricket - a socio-cultural appraisal, Maurice St. Pierre
- the ritual of cricket, Orlando Patterson. Part 3 Ethnicity, social conflict and mass politics: how cricket is West Indian cricket? class, racial and colour conflict, L. O'Brien Thompson
- vox populi - struggle for black leadership
- Indo-West Indians and ethnic solidarity in cricket, Hubert Devonish
- the demise of white West Indies cricket, Ronnie Hughes. Part 4 Nationalism, identity and liberation: Caribbean cricket - the role of sport in emerging small-nation politics, Brian Stoddart
- the political ideology of West Indies cricket, Hilary Beckles
- celebrating cricket - the symbolic construction of Caribbean politics, F. Manning
- cricket and the politics of West Indies integration, June Soomer.
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