The book is an outcome of an Australian Research Council (ARC) funded project titled Assessing the Australian Football League’s Racial and Religious Vilification Laws to Promote Community Harmony, Multiculturalism and Reconciliation, which investigated social participation and the impact of the Australian Football League’s anti-racial vilification policy since its introduction in 1995.
This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Society.
Keir Reeves is a professor of Australian History and Director of the Collaborative Research Centre for Australian History at Federation University Australia.
Sean Gorman is a Senior Research Fellow at the Curtin University who specialises in Indigenous Studies.
Megan Ponsford is an historian whose doctoral research at Federation University Australia focuses on cricketing cross-cultural encounters between Australia and the sub-continent.