Conference Overview

The year 2010 marks the 50th anniversary of Frank Worrell becoming the first Black captain of the West Indies cricket team in a complete test series, and of the famous “Tied Test” with Australia in his first test as Captain. In honour of this anniversary and in memory of Sir Frank Worrell, the third conference on Sport, Race, and Ethnicity is being held in Barbados, birthplace of Sir Frank and many other great West Indian cricketers, including Sir Garfield Sobers, Sir Conrad Hunte, Malcom Marshall, Joel Garner, Gordon Greenidge and Desmond Haynes. The C.L.R. James Centre at Cave Hill is also home to the original manuscript of James’ classic work, Beyond a Boundary. 2010 is also the 200th anniversary of African-American Tom Molineaux’s title fight against White Englishman Tom Cribb and the 50th anniversary of Abebe Bikila’s win in the Marathon at the Rome Olympics - the first Olympic Gold Medal won by a Black African athlete. A young Cassius Clay (Muhammed Ali) also won a Gold Medal in boxing at the Rome Olympics, while Wilma Rudolph became the first African American to win three gold medals in athletics in a single Olympics and apartheid South Africa competed for the last time.

In addition, 2010 marks two sporting events unimaginable in 1960, a tour of the West Indies by the South African national cricket team, and the holding of the FIFA World Cup in South Africa.

In recognition of all these events, we will hold two special panels:

• The Legacy of Sir Frank Worrell
• Assessing Africa’s First World Cup  

We have chosen a number of relevant conference themes including, but not limited to the following:

• Gendered dimensions of race, ethnicity and identity
• Racial, ethnic and identity politics
• Sport, social inclusion and reconciliation
• Sport, social capital and community cohesion: pluralism, multiculturalism or interculturalism?
• Postcolonialism, Race and Ethnicity
• Race, Ethnicity and Migration
• Race, Ethnicity and Performance
• Globalization and Commodification of Sport
• Sport in developing nations
• Coaching and the management of sport
• Sports Tourism
• Sports and Cultural Expression
• Turning Points/Shifting Boundaries?: Key Moments in sports history related to race and ethnicity.

We invite submissions of full sessions or individual papers on the above themes or any other area of discussion relevant to issues of race and ethnicity in sport. Abstracts of 200-300 words for individual papers or up to 1000 words for full sessions should be submitted to:

Professor John Nauright,
Program Chair,
Academy of International Sport,
School of Recreation, Health, and Tourism,
George Mason University,
10900 University Drive MS 4E5,
Manassas, VA 20110,
USA

or by email to: jnaurigh@gmu.edu.

The deadline for paper and session proposals is February 1, 2010. Presenters will be informed of acceptance of their papers no later than February 28, 2010. All presenters must register for the conference.

Presenters who wish their papers to be considered for the edited collection of papers from the conference to be edited by John Nauright, Alan Cobley, and David Wiggins and published by Fitness Information Technology Press in the USA should submit these in full by June 30, 2010.