Race, Sport and Politics: The Sporting Black Diaspora

by Ben Carrington

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.

Genres: Sports

216 pages, Paperback

First published June 28, 2001

Reviews

[Malik · Rating 4 out of 5]

Part sociological, part historical, and theorizing about the combination of race, sport, and politics. That the author is from England provided a wider history of sport, and from a different perspective than many American authors. This book gave me much to think about, but sometimes felt Carrington took too long to make the point he was trying to make. Theorizing on sporting masculinities was where the book fell short, the psychoanalysis provided has not aged well, but luckily only chapter 3 focuses heavily on this.

[Hephzibah · Rating 5 out of 5]

A much needed contribution to the literature!

Also great for classes on race and ethnic relations, sociology of sport, inequality, and social problems