West Indian cricket formalized and reproduced colonial white supremacy hierarchies

Evidence

“The game of cricket, therefore, in a real sense mirrored life in general in West Indian society, where a similar dichotomy existed. Whites were represented in the top echelons of West Indian Society, out of all proportion to their numbers in the population. They led and non-white West Indians were expected to follow. Decisions with respect to who should play, on which grounds test matches in the West Indies should be played, amount of entrance fee for games and hence profits, continued to be made by the whites.” — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2342

Categorization

• XREF: Extends the earlier discussion in this chapter of cricket as C. L. R. James’s terrain of racial struggle; connects to the broader Black-Marxist finding that culture and leisure were arenas of colonial domination.