Black Sporting Resistance

Auteur

JOSEPH N. COOPER is the inaugural Dr. J. Keith Motely Endowed Chair of Sport Leadership and Administration at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is the author of From Exploitation Back to Empowerment: Black Male Holistic (Under)Development through Sport and (Mis)Education and A Legacy of African American Resistance and Activism through Sport.

GERALD HORNE is the John and Rebecca Moores Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. He is the author of over thirty books, including Revolting Capital: Racism and Radicalism in Washington, D.C., 1900–2000 and The Counter Revolution of 1836: Texas Slavery and Jim Crow and the Roots of U.S. Fascism.

Texte du rabat

In this text, the Black Sporting Resistance Framework (BSRF) is introduced to examine how resistance actions in and through sport have contributed to the advancement of local and global racial justice efforts. Key concepts such as African (Black) diaspora, transnationalism, internationalism, sporting resistance typology, and sport activism typology are presented.

Contenu

List of Tables and Figures
Foreword
Introduction: Beyond Boundaries: Sport as a Site for Black Resistance
1 Black Sporting Resistance
2 A Collective Consciousness: African (Black) Diaspora Sporting Resistance
3 They Lived on Their Own Terms: Black Transnationalism Sporting Resistance
4 Revolutionary Consciousness: Black Internationalism Sporting Resistance
5 A Radical Imagination of Future Black Sporting Resistance
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

Foreword by Gerald Horne vii
Introduction: Beyond Boundaries—Sport as a Site for Black Resistance 1
1 Black Sporting Resistance 20
2 A Collective Consciousness: African (Black) Diaspora Sporting Resistance 44
3 They Lived on Their Own Terms: Black Transnationalism Sporting Resistance 75
4 Revolutionary Consciousness: Black Internationalism Sporting Resistance 125
5 A Radical Imagination of Future Black Sporting Resistance 160
Acknowledgments 175
Notes 177
References 199
Index 000