Sport and Protest in the Black Atlantic

<p>*Winner of the North American Society for Sport History 2024 Anthology Book Award*</p><p>This is the first book to focus on race sport protest and the Black Atlantic. It brings together innovative scholarship on African African-American Afro-European Afro-Brazilian and Afro-Caribbean sports in a manner that speaks effectively to the diversity of the African diaspora its history and culture.</p><p>The book explores the history of sports including baseball basketball boxing football rugby cricket and track-and-field athletics to show athlete and fan protests in sport intersected with discourses of nationalism self-fashioning gender and masculinity leisure and play challenges of underdevelopment and the idea of progress. It shows how sport in the African diaspora is a crucially important lens through which to understand the challenges changes and continuities of Black Atlantic history the history of protest and racism.</p><p>This is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in sport history social and cultural history post-imperial history and decolonization or the sociology of sport race and political protest.</p>