
Sports and the Racial Divide, Volume II
A Legacy of African American Athletic Activism
- 180 pages
- English
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Sports and the Racial Divide, Volume II
A Legacy of African American Athletic Activism
About this book
Contributions by Amy Bass, Ashley Farmer, Sarah K. Fields, Billy Hawkins, Kurt Edward Kemper, Michael E. Lomax, and David K. Wiggins In Sports and the Racial Divide, Volume II: A Legacy of African American Athletic Activism, Michael E. Lomax and Billy Hawkins draw together essays that examine evolving attitudes about race, sports, and athletic activism in the US. A follow-up to Lomax's Sports and the Racial Divide: African American and Latino Experience in an Era of Change, this second anthology links postâWorld War II African American protest movements to a range of contemporary social justice interventions. Athlete activists have joined the ongoing pursuit for Black liberation and self-determination in a number of ways. Contributors examine some of these efforts, including the fight for HBCUs to enter the NCAA basketball tournament; Harry Edwards and the boycott of the 1968 Olympic Games; and US sporting culture in the post-9/11 era. Essays also detail topics like the protest efforts of San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick; the link between the Black Power movement and the current Black Lives Matter movement; and the activism of athletes like Lebron James and Naomi Osaka. Collectively, these essays reveal a historical narrative in which African Americans have transformed the currency of athletic achievement into impactful political capital.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Prologue: The Paradox of Race and Sport
- 1. âNo Colored Athletes Allowedâ: The Historically Black College Challenge to the NCAA
- 2. Revisiting the Revolt: Harry Edwards and the Revolt of the Black Athlete
- 3. The Activist Athlete: Contextualizing the Collision of Politics and Sports in the Twenty-First Century
- 4. The Decompartmentalization of the Political Voice: The Conversion of Athletic Capital and Political Capital
- 5. Doomed: Colin Kaepernickâs Collusion Claim against the NFL
- 6. Black Women Athletes, Protest, and Politics: An Interview with Amira Rose Davis
- 7. For the Movement and Not for the Moment: Harry Edwardsâs Persistence, from the Revolt of the Black Athlete to Black Lives Matter
- Epilogue
- About the Contributors
- Index