Black Sporting Resistance

JOSEPH N. COOPER is the inaugural Dr. J. Keith Motely Endowed Chair of Sport Leadership and Administration at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is the author of From Exploitation Back to Empowerment: Black Male Holistic (Under)Development through Sport and (Mis)Education and A Legacy of African American Resistance and Activism through Sport. GERALD HORNE is the John and Rebecca Moores Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. He is the author of over thirty books, including Revolting Capital: Racism and Radicalism in Washington, D.C., 1900–2000 and The Counter Revolution of 1836: Texas Slavery and Jim Crow and the Roots of U.S. Fascism.

• List of Tables and FiguresForewordIntroduction: Beyond Boundaries: Sport as a Site for Black Resistance1 Black Sporting Resistance2 A Collective Consciousness: African (Black) Diaspora Sporting Resistance3 They Lived on Their Own Terms: Black Transnationalism Sporting Resistance4 Revolutionary Consciousness: Black Internationalism Sporting Resistance5 A Radical Imagination of Future Black Sporting ResistanceAcknowledgmentsNotesIndexForeword by Gerald Horne viiIntroduction: Beyond Boundaries—Sport as a Site for Black Resistance 11 Black Sporting Resistance 202 A Collective Consciousness: African (Black) Diaspora Sporting Resistance 443 They Lived on Their Own Terms: Black Transnationalism Sporting Resistance 754 Revolutionary Consciousness: Black Internationalism Sporting Resistance 1255 A Radical Imagination of Future Black Sporting Resistance 160Acknowledgments 175Notes 177References 199Index 000

"Cooper's book serves as a testament to the power of Black resistance and activism in and through sport and its capacity to transcend national borders and cultural divides in the fight for justice." (UMass Boston News) “A strong contribution to sports, politics, and the sociology of race, Black Sporting Resistance indisputably argues that Black athletes and sport organizers have historically been at the forefront of anti-racist political activism. There really is no comparable text to this one.”- Janelle Joseph (author of Sport and the Black Atlantic: Cricket, Canada, and the Caribbean Diaspora) "Black Sporting Resistance is impressive in scope, breadth, and its mastery of different literatures. It's a tremendously important synthesis of scholarship. Drawing on the tradition of Black internationalism, Cooper theorizes race and resistance to Euro-American imperialism through sport as a global process and dialogue that stretches across both time and space. We can see how Black athletes in different times and places react to organize in opposition to global white supremacy." - Jeffrey Montez de Oca (author of Discipline and Indulgence: College Football, Media, and the American Way of Life during th)