Sport and Protest in the Black Atlantic (Routledge Research in Sports History)

By: Michael J. Gennaro and Brian M. McGowan

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Synopsis: This is the first book to focus on race, sport, protest, and the Black Atlantic. It brings together innovative scholarship on African, African-American, Afro-European, Afro-Brazilian, and Afro-Caribbean sports in a manner that speaks effectively to the diversity of the African diaspora, its history, and culture. The book explores the history of sports, including baseball, basketball, boxing, football, rugby, cricket, and track-and-field athletics to show athlete and fan protests in sport intersected with discourses of nationalism, self-fashioning, gender and masculinity, leisure and play, challenges of underdevelopment, and the idea of progress. It shows how sport in the African diaspora is a crucially important lens through which to understand the challenges, changes, and continuities of Black Atlantic history, the history of protest, and racism. This is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in sport history, social and cultural history, post-imperial history and decolonization, or the sociology of sport, race, and political protest.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 237 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781000779356
Related ISBNs:: 9781032340555, 9781032340562, 9781003320364
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 11/01/22
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Michael J. Gennaro and Brian M. McGowan
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Sports, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Michael J. Gennaro
Edited by:: Brian M. McGowan