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

Ethnic and Racial Studies

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 451-483

  Hartmann, Douglas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical social theory; Culture; Race; Sport

Indexed keywords

ETHNIC MINORITY; ETHNICITY; SOCIAL EXCLUSION; SPORT;

EID: 0037871597     PISSN: 01419870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0141987032000067282     Document Type: Article

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