TY  - BOOK
AU  - Paul Ian Campbell
PY  - 2016
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1664-1906
SN  - 9783035308082
TI  - Football, Ethnicity and Community
T2  - The Life of an African-Caribbean Football Club
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-0353-0808-2
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1053428
N2  - Winner of the British Sociological Association Philip Abrams Memorial Prize 2017  This book is a case study of an African-Caribbean-founded football club, Meadebrook Cavaliers, from the English East Midlands. Covering the years 1970 to 2010, it seeks to address the paucity of research on the British African-Caribbean male experience in leisure and sport as well as on the relationship between «race» and local-level football. The development of the club was intimately connected to wider changes in the social and sporting terrain. Based on a mix of archival and ethnographic research, the book examines the club’s growth over four decades, exploring the attitudes, social realities and identity politics of its African-Caribbean membership and the varying demands and expectations of the wider black community. In doing so, it shows how studies of minority ethnic and local football clubs can shed light on the changing social identities and cultural dynamics of the communities that constitute them.
KW  - ethnicity, community, black Asian and minority ethnic sport, grassroots football, Race, local football
LA  - English
ER  -