Beschreibung
This book is a case study of an African-Caribbean founded football club, the Meadebrook Cavaliers. The book examines the club’s growth from 1970 to 2010 and 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. In addition, it also sheds light on the relationship between «race» and local-level football.
Autorenportrait
Paul Ian Campbell is Senior Lecturer in Sport Culture, Media and Development, Special Needs and Inclusion Studies and Education at the University of Wolverhampton. His work focuses on race, ethnicity and identity from a historical, sociological and cultural studies viewpoint.
Inhalt
Contents: Combining history and sociology to write «black» sport – Immigration in Britain: Leicester and the first-generation of African-Caribbeans c.1900-1968 – Finding their feet: Grassroots football, Meadebrook Cavaliers and the second-generation black experience in Leicester – From parks team to football club: Social policy, generational change and grassroots football in Leicester – Re-inventing Cavaliers: Recession, modernisation and processes of «respectability» – Questions of «resistance» in local football in Leicester – «Real» solutions for «real» problems? Community development, cultural cohesion and local football.
