The relevance of the Black Atlantic in contemporary sport: Racial imaginaries in Norway

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 65-81

  Andersson, Mette ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b Sosiologisk Institutt   (Norway)

Author keywords

Basketball; Black Atlantic; Globalization; Postcolonial; Race; Track and field

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548230518     PISSN: 10126902     EISSN: 14617218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1012690207081829     Document Type: Review

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