A critique of Grant Farred’s the burden of over-representation

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Notes

1 William M Simons, ‘The Athlete as Jewish Standard Bearer: Media Images of Hank Greenberg’, in John E. Dreifort (ed), Baseball History From Outside The Lines: A Reader, Lincoln and London, University of Nebraska Press, 2001, 160–179.

2 Farred also refers to ‘the “suffocation” of philosophical indifference to which sport is routinely (if not always) subjected’ (p. 7). He seems to be unaware of the Journal of the Philosophy of Sport. Its first issue appeared in 1974.

3 Ralf Dahrendorf, Class And Class Conflict In An Industrial Society, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1959.

4 Richard Broome, ‘The Australian Reaction to Jack Johnson, Black Pugilist, 1907-9’, in Richard Cashman and Michael McKernan (eds), Sport In History: The Making of Modern Sporting History, Brisbane, University of Queensland Press, 1979, 343–363.

5 Geoffrey C Ward, Unforgiveable Blackness: The Rise And Fall Of Jack Johnson, London, Pimlico, 2005.

6 Plessy v Ferguson, 163 US 537 (1896).

7 David Margolick, Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling and a World on the Brink, New York, Alfred A Knopf, 2005. This is a classic book on sport.

8 Dara Lind, ‘How America’s rejection of Jews fleeing Nazi Germany haunts our refugee policy today’, Vox, January 27, 2017. It might also be useful to read the first two pages of George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Melbourne, Penguin, 1969 (first published 1949), to see how things never change.

9 Louis Breger, Freud: Darkness in the Midst of Vision, New York, John Wiley & Sons, 2000.

10 I am a committed fan of the Australian rules football team, St. Kilda that plays in the Australian Football League. When I watch games and write reviews of games for a blog (The Footy Almanac) I often compare current players with those of the past. Of course, they cannot be ghosts; each and everyone one of them is a Saint!