Following the Ball: The Migration of African Soccer Players Across the Portuguese Colonial Empire, 1949-1975 Volume 16

by Todd Cleveland

With Following the Ball, Todd Cleveland incorporates labor, sport, diasporic, and imperial history to examine the extraordinary experiences of African football players from Portugal's African colonies as they relocated to the metropole from 1949 until the conclusion of the colonial era in 1975. The backdrop was Portugal's increasingly embattled Estado Novo regime, and its attendant use of the players as propaganda to communicate the supposed unity...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896803139
• ISBN13: 9780896803138
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.6"