Caught Behind: Race and Politics in Springbok Cricket

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Wits University Press, 2004 - Social Science - 256 pages
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South Africaâ??s participation in international cricket has been bedeviled by racism and the political intervention of governments virtually from the beginning. This book is a compulsively readable account of the events and political machinations that led to South Africaâ??s cricket isolation in the apartheid era and its ultimate readmission.

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Contents

The Roots of Segregation in the Colonial
19
Apartheid Cricket
49
Cricket and the Sports Boycott
63
Copyright

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About the author (2004)

Bruce Murray is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and president of the Croxley Wits Cricket Club. Christopher Merrett is Director of Administration at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Pietermaritzburg. He has written extensively on the theme of race, politics and sport in South Africa.

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TitleCaught Behind: Race and Politics in Springbok Cricket
AuthorsBruce K. Murray, Christopher Merrett
Editionillustrated
PublisherWits University Press, 2004
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized9 Oct 2008
ISBN1869140591, 9781869140595
Length256 pages
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Social Science / Discrimination & Race Relations
  
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