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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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 NEW! Decolonizing Sport |
Decolonizing Sport tells the stories of sport colonizing Indigenous Peoples and of Indigenous Peoples using sport to decolonize. Spanning several lands — Turtle Island, the US, Australia, … | Christine O’Bonsawin Janice Forsyth | 288 | 2023 | View |
 NEW! On Account of DarknessShining Light on Race and Sport |
For marginalized athletes past and present, achievement can bring celebrity without equality and recognition without opportunity In many ways, Ontario’s Chatham-Kent region is a microcosm … | Ian Kennedy | 213 | 2022 | View |
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From NEW! Ways of Knowing: Sport, Colonialism, and DecolonizationFrom: Decolonizing Sport |
This chapter introduces sport as an aspect of forced assimilation at residential schools in Canada. The mass unmarked graved found at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School is discussed, … | Christine O’Bonsawin Janice Forsyth | 20 | 2023 | $2.00 Add |
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From NEW! Beyond Competition: An Indigenous Perspective on Organized SportFrom: Decolonizing Sport |
This chapter presents an Indigenous perspective on organized sport. Brian Rice shares his personal experience around sports growing up, and later as a physical education teacher in an … | Brian Rice | 13 | 2023 | $1.30 Add |
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From NEW! Under the Pear TreeFrom: On Account of Darkness |
This chapter talks about the history and experiences of Black Americans and Canadians in sports dealing with systemic racism and discrimination. Canada’s history of white supremacy and … | Ian Kennedy | 15 | 2022 | $1.50 Add |
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From NEW! More Than a Mascot: How the Mascot Debate Erases Indigenous People in SportFrom: Decolonizing Sport |
This chapter explores how team mascots erase Indigenous people in sport. Natalie Welch shares her personal story as a Native woman whose life has constantly been haunted by Native American sports … | Natalie Welch | 12 | 2023 | $1.20 Add |
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From NEW! Witnessing Painful Pasts: Understanding Images of Sports at Canadian Indian Residential SchoolsFrom: Decolonizing Sport |
This chapter examines the presence of sports in Canadian residential schools and the use of sports as a tool for forced assimilation. | Taylor McKee and Janice Forsyth | 18 | 2023 | $1.80 Add |
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From NEW! The Absence of Indigenous Moving Bodies: Whiteness and Decolonizing Sport HistoryFrom: Decolonizing Sport |
This chapter examines five ways that historical analyses of sport engage with evidence, coloniality, and Indigenous and colonial ways of knowing. The imperial archive and it’s position in … | Malcolm MacLean | 26 | 2023 | $2.60 Add |
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From NEW! # 87 Using Wikipedia for Sport ReconciliationFrom: Decolonizing Sport |
This chapter discusses a lack of representation and awareness of Indigenous athletes. Wikipedia’s role in perpetuating a colonial understanding of sport is examined, in the context of the … | Victoria Paraschak | 20 | 2023 | $2.00 Add |
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From NEW! Olympism at Face Value: The Legal Feasibility of Indigenous‑Led Olympic GamesFrom: Decolonizing Sport |
This chapter examines how the Olympic games perpetuate colonial values and a colonial understanding of organize sport. Also discussed are potential requirements for cities desiring to host the … | Christine O’Bonsawin | 21 | 2023 | $2.10 Add |
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From NEW! Canoe Racing to Fishing Guides: Sport and Settler Colonialism in Mi’kma’kiFrom: Decolonizing Sport |
This chapter focuses on the displacement of Indigenous populations by settler colonial societies from Mi’kma’ki, the homeland of the Mi’kmaq. It also reflects on the … | John Reid | 15 | 2023 | $1.50 Add |
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From NEW! Transcending Colonialism? Rodeos and Racing in LethbridgeFrom: Decolonizing Sport |
This chapter discusses sport in Lethbridge and the surrounding region between the late 1880s and the First World War. This reading address how frontier or settler colonial communities emerged … | Robert Kossuth | 20 | 2023 | $2.00 Add |
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From NEW! "Men pride themselves on Feats of Endurance" Masculinities and Movement Cultures in Kenyan Running HistoryFrom: Decolonizing Sport |
This chapter focuses on the history of the Kalenjin, the ethnic group predominating in Kenya’s Rift Valley that has achieved extraordinary success in the sport of running. Examining their … | Michelle M. Sikes | 14 | 2023 | $1.40 Add |
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From NEW! Stealing, Drinking, and Not Cooperating: Sport and Everyday Resistance in Aboriginal Settlements in AustraliaFrom: Decolonizing Sport |
This chapter explores how sport can be used as a tool of Aboriginal Australian resistance, within the framework created by historian Richard Broome. | Gary Osmond | 15 | 2023 | $1.50 Add |
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From NEW! Let’s Make Baseball! Practices of Unsettling on the Recreational Ball Diamonds of Tkaronto/TorontoFrom: Decolonizing Sport |
This chapter examines how sport operates as a rarefied cultural symbol in North American society to stabilize settler identity. The colonial history of the sport is discussed as well as how it … | Craig Fortier and Colin Hastings | 19 | 2023 | $1.90 Add |
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From NEW! Subjugating and Liberating at Once: Indigenous Sport History as a Double-Edged SwordFrom: Decolonizing Sport |
In the conclusion, Brendan Hokowhitu reflects on each chapter within this anthology, examining their similarities, differences and what they contribute to our understanding of the relationship … | Brendan Hokowhitu | 7 | 2023 | $0.70 Add |
