Introduction - "Liberation cricket". Part 1 Colonialism and cultural imperialism: sport, cultural imperialism and colonial responses in the British empire - a frame-work for analysis, Brian Stoddart; cricket, apartheid and plantation society in the West Indies at the end of the 19th century, Hilary Beckles; race before wicket - cricket, empire and the white rose, Chris Searle; the elite schools and cricket in Barbados - a study in colonial continuity, Keith Sandiford and Brian Stoddart. Part 2 Creolisation, ideology and popular culture: C.L.R. James' material aesthetic of cricket, Kenneth Surin; cricket, carnival and street culture in the Caribbean, Richard Burton; West Indian cricket - a socio-cultural appraisal, Maurice St. Pierre; the ritual of cricket, Orlando Patterson. Part 3 Ethnicity, social conflict and mass politics: how cricket is West Indian cricket? class, racial and colour conflict, L. O'Brien Thompson; vox populi - struggle for black leadership; Indo-West Indians and ethnic solidarity in cricket, Hubert Devonish; the demise of white West Indies cricket, Ronnie Hughes. Part 4 Nationalism, identity and liberation: Caribbean cricket - the role of sport in emerging small-nation politics, Brian Stoddart; the political ideology of West Indies cricket, Hilary Beckles; celebrating cricket - the symbolic construction of Caribbean politics, F. Manning; cricket and the politics of West Indies integration, June Soomer.
