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The First Black Footballer

The First Black Footballer

Arthur Wharton 1865-1930: An Absence of Memory

Phil Vasili
Barcode 9780714644592
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Release Date: 30/09/1997

Genre: History
Sub-Genre: Sports & Hobbies
Label: Routledge
Contributors: J A Mangan (Series edited by), Boria Majumdar (Series edited by)
Language: English
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Arthur Wharton 1865-1930: An Absence of Memory. 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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