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This is the first book-length study taddress sports 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 tthe 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 tstudents 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
