Sport and Racial Discrimination in Colonial Zimbabwe: A Reanalysis |
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Authors: | Andrew Novak |
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Institution: | 1. Washington College of Law, American University , Washington , DC , USA novak.andrew@gmail.com |
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Abstract: | The British colony of Southern Rhodesia, later governed by a white settler minority as unilaterally-independent Rhodesia, practiced racial segregation in many spheres, including education, health care access and political participation. Though racial segregation tended to exist on a less formal level than in Rhodesia's neighbour, apartheid South Africa, segregationist policies were nonetheless invasive and virtually complete in some areas. Sport was a heavily contested sphere, in which pockets of black African autonomy and advancement existed alongside near-complete white domination, largely, but not entirely, free of government intrusion. This article is an effort to develop a working hypothesis of racial discrimination in Rhodesian sport, discrimination that was never as formal or complete as in South Africa but which nonetheless provided a firm foundation for Rhodesia's exclusion from international sporting competition in the 1970s. |
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Keywords: | Africa apartheid race racial discrimination Rhodesia white minority rule Zimbabwe |
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