TY - JOUR
T1 - What can we learn from sport if we take sport seriously as a racial force? Lessons from C. L. R. James's Beyond a Boundary
AU - Hartmann, Douglas
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2008 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2003/5
Y1 - 2003/5
N2 - This article uses C. L. R. James's classic autobiographical study of cricket, Beyond a Boundary (1963/1983), to contribute to a fuller theory of the social force of sport as it pertains to race and ethnicity. Three aspects of the theoretical architecture embedded in this masterpiece of cultural criticism are highlighted: (1) the popularity and symbolic significance of sport in contemporary societies; (2) the cultural capital that sport provides for otherwise marginalized and excluded racial and ethnic minorities; and, (3) the moral structure implicit (if not always fully realized) in sporting practices such as cricket. It is argued that these points, in combination with the more critical insights developed by sport scholars in recent years, help us to better understand the complexity and significance of sport and popular culture more generally with respect to race and ethnicity in contemporary social life.
AB - This article uses C. L. R. James's classic autobiographical study of cricket, Beyond a Boundary (1963/1983), to contribute to a fuller theory of the social force of sport as it pertains to race and ethnicity. Three aspects of the theoretical architecture embedded in this masterpiece of cultural criticism are highlighted: (1) the popularity and symbolic significance of sport in contemporary societies; (2) the cultural capital that sport provides for otherwise marginalized and excluded racial and ethnic minorities; and, (3) the moral structure implicit (if not always fully realized) in sporting practices such as cricket. It is argued that these points, in combination with the more critical insights developed by sport scholars in recent years, help us to better understand the complexity and significance of sport and popular culture more generally with respect to race and ethnicity in contemporary social life.
KW - Critical social theory
KW - Culture
KW - Race
KW - Sport
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U2 - 10.1080/0141987032000067282
DO - 10.1080/0141987032000067282
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0037871597
SN - 0141-9870
VL - 26
SP - 451
EP - 483
JO - Ethnic and Racial Studies
JF - Ethnic and Racial Studies
IS - 3
ER -