The Race Game: Sport and Politics in South Africa

by Douglas Booth

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0714643548
• ISBN13: 9780714643540
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"