Race, sport and politics
Subtitle: the sporting black diaspora
By: Ben Carrington
Series: Theory, culture & society
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; Los Angeles [i.e. Thousand Oaks, Calif]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9781412901024; 9781412901031; 9781849204293
Subjects: Race relations; Diskriminierung; Social aspects; Racism in sports; Sports; Political aspects; Discrimination in sports; Black Athletes; African diaspora; Sport; Rassenvorurteil
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : sport, the black athlete and the remaking of race; title: Sporting resistance : thinking of race and sport diasporically; title: Sporting redemption : violence, desire and the politics of freedom; title: Sporting negritude : commodity blackness and the liberation of failure; title: Sporting multiculturalism : nationalism, belonging and identity; title: Conclusion : race, sport and the post/colonial.