Race, sport and politics the sporting black diaspora
From tennis to soccer, basketball to boxing, football to golf, the visibility of black athletes within global popular culture is beyond dispute. Rejecting the view that the level playing field of sport provides compelling evidence that we have moved beyond the racial inequalities of the past, Race,...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Sage Publications
2010.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Theory, culture & society. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31189519*spi |
| Sumario: | From tennis to soccer, basketball to boxing, football to golf, the visibility of black athletes within global popular culture is beyond dispute. Rejecting the view that the level playing field of sport provides compelling evidence that we have moved beyond the racial inequalities of the past, Race, Sport and Politics suggests instead that sport has long constituted an important site of struggle for racist and anti-racist projects alike, and that ideas about the "the black athlete" persist as central to contemporary racial politics. |
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| Descripción Física: | x, 201 p. : il |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. [179]-192) e índice. |
| ISBN: | 9781849204293 |
