Nyuragil - playing the 'game'

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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