Sport Development and Sport for Development in the Caribbean

Roy McCree is a sociologist and Senior Research Fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Trinidad and Tobago Campus. He is a former President of the Caribbean Sociological Association (CASA) (2021-2023). His broad research interests cover sport, positive youth development, community development, public-private partnerships and monitoring and evaluation.

• Introduction – Sport Development and Sport for Development in the Caribbean: A Sociology of Emerging Trends; Roy McCreeSection I. Development of SportChapter 1. A Multi-Level Analysis of 20th Century West Indian Cricket as Black Sporting Resistance; Joseph N. CooperChapter 2. Haitian Isolation: Baseball’s Identity Crisis in the Dominican Republic; Patrick GentileChapter 3. Baseball: A Cultural Sport Practice and National Heritage in Cuba; Neris Rodríguez-Matos, Margarita Victoria Hernández Garrido, and Jorge Luis Herrera OchoaChapter 4. Cuban Women in Sport: A Soft Power Asset of the Socialist Revolution; Jacqueline Laguardia MartinezChapter 5. From a Trickle to a Throng: Transatlantic Soccer Migration from Trinidad and Tobago, 1933-2019; Roy McCreeChapter 6. A Culture of Care: Jamaican Female College Athletes and Yosso’s Cultural Wealth Model; Khalilah DossChapter 7. Recruitment and Retention Issues of Female Athletes: Triathletes in Trinidad and Tobago; Anand RampersadChapter 8. Indigenous Sports in the French Caribbean: Gender, the Yoles Rondes and Boat Racing in Martinique; Hélène ZamorSection II. Sport for DevelopmentChapter 9. Esports and Sport for Development in the Caribbean; Russell StockardChapter 10. Sport for Development in Haiti and the Contribution of Haitian Athletes to the World of Football; Eustache PlacideChapter 11. Where Bodies Roar: The Transformative Impact of Football on Earthquake Survivors with Physical Disabilities in Haiti; Kapriskie Seide and Gayle KaufmanChapter 12. Boxing Beyond the Ring: A Holistic Program for Women in Trinidad and Tobago; Ria Ramnarine, Kalyn McDonough, and Matthew J. Robinson