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    6. Cavaliers Made Us ‘United’: Local Football, Identity Politics and Second-generation African-Caribbean Youth in the East Midlands c .1970–9

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Campbell,Paul Ian (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2013-06
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Sport in History
    Journal Title Details:
    33(2) : 169-194
    Notes:
    The concept of a unified African-Caribbean community or identity is a modern construction in that it emerged in its present guise during the second half of the twentieth century. Prior to this, the identity politics of the ‘black’ people from this region were largely polarized. They were frequently divided along lines of island identities (Jamaica, Barbados, St Kitts etc.). Focusing on the period between 1970 and 1979, this article sketches out the ways in which the black experience within local-level football also contributed to identity change among a particular group of young sportsmen in Leicester.