The Race Game: Sport and Politics in South Africa1999 North American Society for Sports History Book of the Year Douglas Booth looks at the role of sport in the fostering of a new national identity in South Africa. He analyzes the effect of the 30-year sport boycott but concludes that sport will never unite South Africans except in the most fleeting and superficial manner. |
Contents
1 From Pariah to Olympic Host | 1 |
2 The Politics of Racial Identity | 10 |
3 Apartheid and Sport | 55 |
4 The Sports Boycott | 85 |
5 Reforming Apartheid Sport | 123 |
6 Negotiating the New South Africa | 167 |
Nationalizing the New South Africa | 206 |
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