Race, Sport and Politics: The Sporting Black Diaspora (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781412901031)

This is the first book-length study to address sport′s role in ′the making of race′, the place of sport within black diasporic struggles for freedom and equality, and the contested location of sport in relation to the politics of recognition within contemporary western multicultural societies. Race, Sport and Politics shows that over the past century sport has occupied a dominant position within Western culture in producing ideas of racial difference and alterity while providing a powerful and public modality for forms of black cultural resistance.

Written by one of the leading international authorities on the sociology of race and sport, it is the first book that centrally locates sport within the cultural politics of the black diaspora and will be of relevance to students and scholars in fields such as the sociology of culture and sport, the sociology of race and diaspora studies, postcolonial theory, cultural theory and cultural studies.

Author: Ben Carrington
ISBN-10: 1412901030
ISBN-13: 9781412901031
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Language: English
Published: 11/07/2010
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2011