"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 decolonisation, or the sociology of sport, race and political protest"--
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.
Introduction,
1. Sojourning African American Ballplayers in Latin
America and the Caribbean, 19201950,
2. Sports and African American
Emancipation: Edwin Bancroft Hendersons View on Sports in The Messenger in
the 1920s,
3. South African Weightlifting, the International Sports Boycott
and Artists and Athletes against Apartheid c. 19481990: "Coincidental,
Parallel and Common Struggles",
4. The Role of Race and Protest in American
Professional Basketball: Pro Basketballs Hidden Fear,
5. Contextualization
of Africas Historic Boycott of the 1966 World Cup and Its Legacy,
6. Black
Power and Student Protest against Uncle Tomism at Grambling College,
7. The
War of the Santos Football Club during Its 1969 African Tour,
8. Bill Cains
"Scrutiny," and His Transformation into an Athlete Ambassador in French
Professional Basketball,
9. Feyisa Lilesa and the Transnational Protest of
Ethiopias Most Enduring Olympian,
10. A Historical Account of Caster
Semenyas Decade-Long Protest of the IAAF and IOCs Sex Policies and
Definition of Femininity
Michael J. Gennaro is an Associate Professor at Seminole State College of Florida, USA.
Brian M. McGowan is the William McIntosh Endowed Professor of Liberal Arts at Grambling State University, USA.
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