From Boys to Men
Colonial Education, Cricket and Masculinity in the Caribbean, 1870- c .1920
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 12219097 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Aviston D Downes (University of the West, autor correspondente), Aviston Downes |
| Ano | 2004 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Fascículo | 1 |
| Páginas | 3-21 |
| Data de publicação | 2004-12-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Não |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | The International Journal of the History of Sport (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0952-3367 • E-ISSN: 1743-9035 |
| Editora | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0952336052000314647 |
| OpenAlex | W2000870249 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 8 |
| Referências citadas | 10 |
This article contends that elite middle-class schools established in the Caribbean from the latter half of the nineteenth century played a central role in masculine identity formation in the region. Like the English public schools after which they were modelled, sport, especially cricket, reinforced by popular juvenile literature and paramilitarism was at the core of the creation of this masculine identity. Boys were taught that the sports field and the battlefield were arenas for proving their manhood. Although the elite schools catered primarily to the white elite and a selected few from the non-white middle class, the masculine games ethos assumed a hegemony across Caribbean societies. Black men in the Caribbean, like their white counterparts at home and across the empire, enthusiastically embraced the sporting codes and enlisted to defend imperial interests in the First World War. Racial discrimination, however, fragmented any notion of a common British transatlantic manhood. The emergence of 'bodyline' bowling in West Indian cricket from the 1920s reflected a challenge to entrenched notions of white colonial and imperial masculinities
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Art · Colonialism · Cricket · Elite · Empire · Ethos · Hegemonic masculinity · Hegemony · Identity (music · Masculinity · Political science · Politics · Sociology · White (mutation · Australian History and Society · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Gender Studies · History · Law · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
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Crossing colonial boundaries
These Things not Marked on Paper
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Youth and History
Cricket and englishness
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Sport, war and gender images
The elite schools and cricket in barbados
"Benefits Bestowed"? Education and British Imperialism
Sir Robert Baden-Powell, the Scout movement and citizen training in Great Britain, 1900–1920
Militarism in Britain Before the Great War
What Should Historians do with Masculinity? Reflections on Nineteenth-century Britain
| Obras citantes distintas | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citações por ano | 0,44 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2008 - 2021 (14) |
| Velocidade de citação | historical |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 8 |