{"product_id":"sport-and-protest-in-the-black-atlantic-9781032340562","title":"Sport and Protest in the Black Atlantic","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Michael J. Gennaro | Brian M. McGowan\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e*Winner of the North American Society for Sport History 2024 Anthology Book Award*\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46443135828119,"sku":"9781032340562","price":3486.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781032340562.webp?v=1769125409","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/sport-and-protest-in-the-black-atlantic-9781032340562","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}