The racial makeup of sports in the United States serves as a classic example of racism in the 21st century. This book examines the racial disparities in sports and the continuing significance of race in 21st-century America, debunking the myth of a "postracial society."
Lori Latrice Martin is Professor of African and African American Studies and Associate Dean at Louisiana State University, USA.
In this important work about the racial dynamics that shape
understandings of sport in the US, Martin offers a thoroughly
researched and insightful examination of a sport system that left
behind the racial segregation of Jim Crow but left intact many of
the underlying assumptions that fuel institutional racism. . . .
Arguing that "the role of race is not tangential, it is
foundational" (emphasis Martin's), she provides readers with clear
and cogent examples of how sport, as an agent of racial
socialization, works to maintain the status quo, thwarting efforts
to move beyond race by reinventing, repackaging, and reproducing
conceptions of whiteness and blackness. Summing Up: Highly
recommended. All readers.
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