Burden of Over-Representation
Subtitle: Race, Sport, and Philosophy
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781439911433
Subjects: World cup (soccer); Sports, philosophy; Racism in sports
Description: "This book probes the cultural forces and legacies at play in three events in sports history, exploring how racial, national, sporting, and personal identities overlap and conflict. The author taps into a deep well of Western philosophy and literature to read the resonances in these three moments"--