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Sporting Nationalisms: Identity, Ethnicity, Immigration and Assimilation
Contributor(s): Cronin, Mike (Editor), Mayall, David (Editor)

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 ISBN: 0714644498     ISBN-13: 9780714644493
Publisher: Routledge
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: October 1998
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Annotation: This volume examines the ways in which sport shapes the experiences of various immigrant and minority groups and in particular, looks at the relationship between sport, ethnic identity and ethnic relations. br The essays in this volume are concerned primarily with British, American and Australian sporting traditions and the themes covered include the consolidation of ethnic identity in host societies through participant immigrant sports and exclusive sporting organizations, assimilation into "host" societies through participation in indigenous, national sports, and the construction by outsiders of separate ethnic identities according to sporting criteria.

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BISAC Categories:
- Sports & Recreation | Reference
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General
- Social Science | Emigration & Immigration
Dewey: 306.483
LCCN: 98-18870
Series: Cass Series--Sport in the Global Society,
Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" L (0.70 lbs) 240 pages
 
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This volume examines the ways in which sport shapes the experiences of various immigrant and minority groups and, in particular, looks at the relationship between sport, ethnic identity and ethnic relations. The articles in this volume are concerned primarily with British, American and Australian sporting traditions and the themes covered include the consolidation of ethnic identity in host societies through participation immigrant sports and exclusive sporting organizations, assimilation into host' societies through participation in indigenous, national sports, and the construction by outsiders of separate ethnic identities according to sporting criteria.
 
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