Toby C Rider
Biographic Data
| ID | 2419983 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Toby C Rider |
| GIVEN NAMES | Toby C |
| FAMILY NAME | Rider |
| SIGNATURE | RIDER T C |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Fullerton |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-7250-0688 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Every Practical Step”
In 1977, British Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan joined Commonwealth leaders by committing to the Gleneagles Agreement and thereby pledged to “combat the evil of apartheid” by “taking every practical step” to prevent sporting contacts between Britain and South Africa. Within two years of the agreement being struck, the Tories came to power under the leadership of Margaret Thatcher. Until the end of Thatcher’s time in office (1990), Britain’…
Sport in Isolation? New Perspectives on Race, Sport, and Politics in Apartheid South Africa
The following essays constitute the second part of a double-issue that started with New Perspectives on Sport and Apartheid: Local and Global. 1 Inspired by the same scholarly mission that fueled p
Dennis Brutus and the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee in Exile, 1966–1970
In July 1966, the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee (SANROC) re-emerged in exile in London. The arrival of Dennis Brutus, the coloured Rhodesian-born activist, poet, and educator, into the British capital provided the stimulus to renew calls for the exclusion of apartheid South Africa from international sport. In the years 1966–1970 that marked Brutus’s exile in Britain, SANROC elevated apartheid sport to the world’s attention. As this p…
New Perspectives on Sport and Apartheid
On March 31, 1962, the Rand Daily Mail headlined its front page: ‘Whites Only at Olympics’.1 The newspaper alerted the South African public to the fact that the Minister of the Interior, Jan de Kle
Barbarians, Bridge Builders, and Boycott
In January 1980, four representatives of the British Sports Council began a fact-finding mission in South Africa to assess whether or not the apartheid nation had taken significant steps towards social and racial equality in its sports culture. The Council published its conclusions in a long and detailed document. Although the report unreservedly ‘condemned’ apartheid, it indicated that South African sport was experiencing increasing levels of in…
Sun, Surf, and Toned Bodies
Research Article| April 01 2019 Sun, Surf, and Toned Bodies: California’s Impact on the History of Sport and Leisure: Introduction Toby C. Rider; Toby C. Rider California State University, Fullerton correspondence to [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Matthew P. Llewellyn; Matthew P. Llewellyn California State University, Fullerton correspondence to [email protected] Search for other works by th…
Making Contact with the Captive Peoples
Although scholars have explored the efforts of the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration to forge greater cultural ties with the Soviet Union through sporting contacts, they have generally overlooked the fact that the U.S. government also sent American athletes to Eastern Europe in the same era. As this article will demonstrate, the presence of American athletes in Romania, Poland, and Hungary from 1956 to 1958 provided the White House with exactly…
Sport, Thatcher and Apartheid Politics
On 23 March 1984, Afrikaner teenage running sensation Zola Budd boarded a KLM flight at the Jan Smuts airport in Johannesburg bound for Britain. Through the manoeuvrings of the London-based Daily Mail newspaper, Budd fled apartheid South Africa for the opportunity to compete on the international stage under the representative colours of Great Britain. To forward his own commercial agenda, Sir David English, chief editor of the Daily Mail and a pe…
Longfellow's Tattoos
Globe-Trotting in Japan2. Picturing Japan3. Paradise of Curios4. Embodying Japan5. Domesticating JapanEpilogueNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
A Campaign of Truth
Scholars who have examined the role of the Olympic Games in U.S. Cold War strategy have dealt mostly with the post-Stalin era, when the Olympic Games were a stage for “symbolic combat” between athletes from the East and West and a cultural force with a powerful and compelling message that could be used for political gain. The Games were overseen by the International Olympic Committee, which both influenced and was influenced by the actions of wor…
Filling the Information Gap
Due to the decision of the Soviet Union and nearly all of its East European satellites to withdraw from the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games, the communist media provided audiences in the Soviet bloc with few reports on the sporting events in the Olympic city. When Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, broadcasters funded by the US government, attempted to fill this ‘information gap’ by beaming coverage of the Los Angeles Games behind the Iron Curtai…
Political Warfare in Helsinki
When a group of East European exiles named the Union of Free Eastern European Sportsmen (UFEES) attempted to enter stateless athletes into the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, they executed a deliberate anti-communist manoeuvre. Perhaps more significantly, the UFEES was secretly funded by the U.S. government, a fact which serves to demonstrate the remarkable range of ways in which Washington was able to fund and work with private organisations and individ…
Eastern Europe’s Unwanted
During the post Second World War years, a number of athletes defected from the newly established Communist regimes of Eastern Europe. Many of these exiled athletes wanted to compete in the Olympic games, but the rules of the Olympic Charter stipulated that they could not. As such, this study examines how the International Olympic Committee negotiated the persistent efforts of exiles to change the organization’s eligibility rules. This campaign ev…
Cricket and the Meaning of Life
Book Review| July 01 2011 Cricket and the Meaning of Life Cricket and the Meaning of Life, (2006). Written, directed, and narrated by Sanjay Talreja. Produced by Gerry Flahive. Distributed by the National Film Board of Canada. 51 mins. Toby C. Rider Toby C. Rider University of Western Ontario Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2011) 38 (2): 289–291. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.38.2.289 C…
Filling the Information Gap
Due to the decision of the Soviet Union and nearly all of its East European satellites to withdraw from the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games, the communist media provided audiences in the Soviet bloc with few reports on the sporting events in the Olympic city. When Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, broadcasters funded by the US government, attempted to fill this ‘information gap’ by beaming coverage of the Los Angeles Games behind the Iron Curtai…
Dennis Brutus and the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee in Exile, 1966–1970
In July 1966, the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee (SANROC) re-emerged in exile in London. The arrival of Dennis Brutus, the coloured Rhodesian-born activist, poet, and educator, into the British capital provided the stimulus to renew calls for the exclusion of apartheid South Africa from international sport. In the years 1966–1970 that marked Brutus’s exile in Britain, SANROC elevated apartheid sport to the world’s attention. As this p…
New Perspectives on Sport and Apartheid
On March 31, 1962, the Rand Daily Mail headlined its front page: ‘Whites Only at Olympics’.1 The newspaper alerted the South African public to the fact that the Minister of the Interior, Jan de Kle
Political Warfare in Helsinki
When a group of East European exiles named the Union of Free Eastern European Sportsmen (UFEES) attempted to enter stateless athletes into the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, they executed a deliberate anti-communist manoeuvre. Perhaps more significantly, the UFEES was secretly funded by the U.S. government, a fact which serves to demonstrate the remarkable range of ways in which Washington was able to fund and work with private organisations and individ…
Cricket and the Meaning of Life
Book Review| July 01 2011 Cricket and the Meaning of Life Cricket and the Meaning of Life, (2006). Written, directed, and narrated by Sanjay Talreja. Produced by Gerry Flahive. Distributed by the National Film Board of Canada. 51 mins. Toby C. Rider Toby C. Rider University of Western Ontario Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2011) 38 (2): 289–291. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.38.2.289 C…
Political Warfare in Helsinki
When a group of East European exiles named the Union of Free Eastern European Sportsmen (UFEES) attempted to enter stateless athletes into the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, they executed a deliberate anti-communist manoeuvre. Perhaps more significantly, the UFEES was secretly funded by the U.S. government, a fact which serves to demonstrate the remarkable range of ways in which Washington was able to fund and work with private organisations and individ…
Eastern Europe’s Unwanted
During the post Second World War years, a number of athletes defected from the newly established Communist regimes of Eastern Europe. Many of these exiled athletes wanted to compete in the Olympic games, but the rules of the Olympic Charter stipulated that they could not. As such, this study examines how the International Olympic Committee negotiated the persistent efforts of exiles to change the organization’s eligibility rules. This campaign ev…
Filling the Information Gap
Due to the decision of the Soviet Union and nearly all of its East European satellites to withdraw from the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games, the communist media provided audiences in the Soviet bloc with few reports on the sporting events in the Olympic city. When Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, broadcasters funded by the US government, attempted to fill this ‘information gap’ by beaming coverage of the Los Angeles Games behind the Iron Curtai…
A Campaign of Truth
Scholars who have examined the role of the Olympic Games in U.S. Cold War strategy have dealt mostly with the post-Stalin era, when the Olympic Games were a stage for “symbolic combat” between athletes from the East and West and a cultural force with a powerful and compelling message that could be used for political gain. The Games were overseen by the International Olympic Committee, which both influenced and was influenced by the actions of wor…
Longfellow's Tattoos
Globe-Trotting in Japan2. Picturing Japan3. Paradise of Curios4. Embodying Japan5. Domesticating JapanEpilogueNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
Making Contact with the Captive Peoples
Although scholars have explored the efforts of the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration to forge greater cultural ties with the Soviet Union through sporting contacts, they have generally overlooked the fact that the U.S. government also sent American athletes to Eastern Europe in the same era. As this article will demonstrate, the presence of American athletes in Romania, Poland, and Hungary from 1956 to 1958 provided the White House with exactly…
Sport, Thatcher and Apartheid Politics
On 23 March 1984, Afrikaner teenage running sensation Zola Budd boarded a KLM flight at the Jan Smuts airport in Johannesburg bound for Britain. Through the manoeuvrings of the London-based Daily Mail newspaper, Budd fled apartheid South Africa for the opportunity to compete on the international stage under the representative colours of Great Britain. To forward his own commercial agenda, Sir David English, chief editor of the Daily Mail and a pe…
New Perspectives on Sport and Apartheid
On March 31, 1962, the Rand Daily Mail headlined its front page: ‘Whites Only at Olympics’.1 The newspaper alerted the South African public to the fact that the Minister of the Interior, Jan de Kle
Barbarians, Bridge Builders, and Boycott
In January 1980, four representatives of the British Sports Council began a fact-finding mission in South Africa to assess whether or not the apartheid nation had taken significant steps towards social and racial equality in its sports culture. The Council published its conclusions in a long and detailed document. Although the report unreservedly ‘condemned’ apartheid, it indicated that South African sport was experiencing increasing levels of in…
Sun, Surf, and Toned Bodies
Research Article| April 01 2019 Sun, Surf, and Toned Bodies: California’s Impact on the History of Sport and Leisure: Introduction Toby C. Rider; Toby C. Rider California State University, Fullerton correspondence to [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Matthew P. Llewellyn; Matthew P. Llewellyn California State University, Fullerton correspondence to [email protected] Search for other works by th…
Sport in Isolation? New Perspectives on Race, Sport, and Politics in Apartheid South Africa
The following essays constitute the second part of a double-issue that started with New Perspectives on Sport and Apartheid: Local and Global. 1 Inspired by the same scholarly mission that fueled p
Dennis Brutus and the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee in Exile, 1966–1970
In July 1966, the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee (SANROC) re-emerged in exile in London. The arrival of Dennis Brutus, the coloured Rhodesian-born activist, poet, and educator, into the British capital provided the stimulus to renew calls for the exclusion of apartheid South Africa from international sport. In the years 1966–1970 that marked Brutus’s exile in Britain, SANROC elevated apartheid sport to the world’s attention. As this p…
Every Practical Step”
In 1977, British Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan joined Commonwealth leaders by committing to the Gleneagles Agreement and thereby pledged to “combat the evil of apartheid” by “taking every practical step” to prevent sporting contacts between Britain and South Africa. Within two years of the agreement being struck, the Tories came to power under the leadership of Margaret Thatcher. Until the end of Thatcher’s time in office (1990), Britain’…
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