Written by one of the leading international authorities on the sociology of race and sport, this is the first book to address sport′s role in ′the making of race′, the place of sport within black diasporic struggles for freedom and equality, and the contested location of sport in relation to the politics of recognition within contemporary multicultural societies.
Race, Sport and Politics shows how, during the first decades of the twentieth century, the idea of ′the natural bla...
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Introduction: Sport, the Black Athlete and the Remaking of Race
Sporting Resistance: Thinking Race and Sport Diasporically
Sporting Redemption: Violence, Desire a...
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Ben Carrington is a sociologist who has taught at the University of Texas at Austin since 2004. Prior to that he taught at the University of Brighton in England. Profe...