Don't Stick to Sports (eBook)

The American Athlete's Fight against Injustice

Derek Charles Catsam (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
286 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-5381-4472-5 (ISBN)

Infos

A significant examination of how athletes have fought for inclusion and equality on and off the playing field, despite calls for them to ';stick to sports.' The claim that sports areor ought to beapolitical has itself never been an apolitical position. Rather, it is a veiled attempt to control which politics are acceptable in the athletic realm, a designation intricately linked to issues of race, gender, ethnicity, and more.In Dont Stick to Sports: The American Athlete's Fight against Injustice, Derek Charles Catsam carefully explores this disparity. He looks at how, throughout recent sports history in the United States, minority athletes have had to fight every step of the way for their right to compete, and how they continue to fight for equity today. From African Americans and women to LGBTQ+ and religious minorities, Catsam shows how these athletes have taken a stand to address the underlying injustices in sports and society despite being told it's not their place to do so. While it's impossible for a single book to tell the entire history of exclusion in the sporting world, Don't Stick to Sports looks at key moments from the World War I era to the present to shatter the myth of sports as a meritocracy, of sports-as-equalizer, highlighting the reality as something far more complicatedof sports as a malleable world where exclusion and inclusion are rarely straight-forward.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.10.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: activism in sports • African American History • battle of the sexes • Billie Jean King • Black History • Black lives matter • Civil Rights • Colin Kaepernick • Discrimination • gender and sports • Jackie Robinson • LGBTQ athletes • Megan Rapinoe • Michael Sam • minorities and sports • minority athletes • MLB • Muhammad Ali • national anthem • NBA • NFL • NHL • Olympic protests • Olympics • patriotism and sports • politics and sports • Protests • race and sports • Racism • social change • Sports History • Tommie Smith and John Carlos
• ISBN-10: 1-5381-4472-7 / 1538144727
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5381-4472-5 / 9781538144725