Sporting Blackness examines issues of race and representation in sports films, exploring what it means to embody, perform, play out, and contest blackness by re

Written by one of the leading international authorities on the sociology of race and sport, this is the first book to address sport′s role in ′the making of

The Revolt of the Black Athlete hit sport and society like an Ali combination. This Fiftieth Anniversary edition of Harry Edwards's classic of activist scholars

Explores how the NBA moved to govern black players and the expression of blackness after the “Palace Brawl” of 2004.

Commodified and Criminalized examines the centrality of sport to discussions of racial ideologies and racist practices in the 21st century. It disputes familiar