ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the question of what has been the impact of race upon and through the academic sub-discipline of the history of sport. The key to both sport and race was that initially emerged as elements of colonialism and later of imperialism and associated cultural imposition; and as both advanced and became increasing more complex of this particular relationship. Though economics was undoubtedly a major force driving British expansionism, it was cultural imperialism that drove the soft power elements of British imperialism. The plethora of analyses that emanated from the topic of race in sport has steadily steered the course and the nature of the historical analysis of sport since the earliest days of the sub-discipline. The author concludes saying: As it had done in other realms of the British Empire, late Victorian sport confirmed the privileged position of the white Anglo-Saxon over other races, and in this way became an important cultural facet of imperialism within the region.
