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A Legacy of African American Resistance and Activism Through Sport (Paperback, New edition)
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A Legacy of African American Resistance and Activism Through Sport (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Global Intersectionality of Education, Sports, Race, and Gender, 4
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In recent years, there has been increased attention garnered toward
activism in sport within the United States. In 2016, Colin
Kaepernick's activist act of taking a knee during the national
anthem before National Football League games sparked a nationwide
debate on the intersection of sports, race, and politics.
Kaepernick's actions were a part of a long lineage of activism in
and through sport. Prior accounts of African American activism in
and through sport have been limited in the following eight areas:
(1) primarily focused on one type of activism (e.g., symbolic
protests/boycotts); (2) a lack of differentiation between activism
and borderline activist actions (e.g., agency, pioneering, and
advocacy); (3) a lack of emphasis on hybrid resistance; (4) a focus
on athletes and teams versus sportspersons (i.e., media, scholars,
business leaders, and community members) and institutions (i.e.,
historically Black colleges and universities, athletic programs,
and conferences) more broadly; (5) largely focused on one era of
prominent athlete activism in the 1960s; (6) principally excluded
and marginalized the importance of women's role in resistance
efforts (e.g., activism for social change); (7) primarily focused
on activism at the intercollegiate and professional levels with
less attention toward youth and interscholastic levels; and (8) a
lack of theoretically driven analyses of the resistance efforts
exhibited by African American sportspersons, teams, groups,
organizations, and institutions. Instead of exclusively using the
term activism, the author uses the broader encompassing term of
resistance as the focal framework for this text. Resistance is
defined as intentional and/or unintentional actions by individuals,
groups, organizations, and/or institutions that challenge
oppressive systems and ideological hegemony. Using adaptive race-
and ethnicity-centric typologies and interdisciplinary theories,
this book offers a critical analysis of African Americans' intra-
and inter-generational resistance actions where, when, why, and how
sport has been utilized to express their humanity, preserve their
cultural heritages, empower themselves and their communities,
project political views, and pursue freedom, equality, and justice.
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