The First Black Footballer : Arthur Wharton 1865-1930: An Absence of Memory

by Phil Vasili

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Format Paperback / Softback

Book Series Sport in the Global Society

ISBN-10 0714644595

ISBN-13 9780714644592

Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

Imprint Routledge

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Sep 30th, 1997

Print length 272 Pages

Weight 412 grams

Dimensions 23.30 x 15.60 x 2.50 cms

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A biography of the world's first black professional footballer, set in the cultural and political context of Victorian England. Offers new insight into the onset of sport professionalism, the class divide and the roots of institutionalized racism.

Arthur Wharton was the world''s first black professional footballer, and the first African to play professional cricket in Yorkshire and Lancashire leagues. Those promoting Empire as an expression of white supremacy found him a supreme irritation, and he eventually died in poverty.

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