- Title
- Nyuragil - playing the 'game'
- Creator
- Maynard, John
- Relation
- Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies p. 555-565
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429440229
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- Sport is a contested space not just on the playing field; historically it is an arena of racism where racist concepts have been challenged. Australian sport and its sporting heroes are one of the country’s important foundations of the national identity. Any challenge surrounding this revered sports tradition within the national story becomes itself a contested space. The Aboriginal place in Australia’s sporting history is one of triumph and disappointment. This chapter presents an overview of Aboriginal sporting experiences and a focus on the life and times of a largely forgotten sporting hero Wally McArthur. Sadly Australia of the 1940s and 1950s was not a country that embraced an Aboriginal sporting star no matter how talented or hard he strived. Wally McArthur would never be given the support or space to enter the national imagination.
- Subject
- sport; racism; sporting history; Aboriginal sporting experiences
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1434573
- Identifier
- uon:39462
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781138341302
- Language
- eng
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