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The Race Game: Sport and Politics in South Africa
Author(s): Douglas Booth (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 30 April 1998
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 284 pages
- ISBN-10: 0714647993
- ISBN-13: 9780714647999
Book Description
1999 North American Society for Sports History Book of the Year
Douglas Booth looks at the role of sport in the fostering of a new national identity in South Africa. He analyzes the effect of the 30-year sport boycott but concludes that sport will never unite South Africans except in the most fleeting and superficial manner.
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