Race, sport and politics the sporting black diaspora
Title:
Race, sport and politics the sporting black diaspora
Author:
Carrington, Ben, 1972-
ISBN:
9781849204293
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Publication Information:
London : Sage Publications, 2010.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (x, 201 p.) : ill.
Series:
Theory, Culture & Society
Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)
Contents:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction -- Sport, the Black Athlete and the Remaking of Race; 1 -- Sporting Resistance: Thinking Race and Sport Diasporically; 2 -- Sporting Redemption: Violence, Desire and the Politics of Freedom; 3 -- Sporting Negritude: Commodity Blackness and the Liberation of Failure; 4 -- Sporting Multiculturalism: Nationalism, Belonging and Identity; Conclusion: Race, Sport and the Post/colonial; References; Index.
Abstract:
From tennis to soccer, basketball to boxing, football to golf, the visibility of black athletes within global popular culture is beyond dispute. Rejecting the view that the level playing field of sport provides compelling evidence that we have moved beyond the racial inequalities of the past, Race, Sport and Politics suggests instead that sport has long constituted an important site of struggle for racist and anti-racist projects alike, and that ideas about the "the black athlete" persist as central to contemporary racial politics.
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