Sports and the Racial Divide Volume II

Contributions by Amy Bass Ashley Farmer Sarah K. Fields Billy Hawkins Kurt Edward Kemper Michael E. Lomax and David K. Wiggins <p/> In <i>Sports and the Racial Divide Volume II: A Legacy of African American Athletic Activism</i> Michael E. Lomax and Billy Hawkins draw together essays that examine evolving attitudes about race sports and athletic activism in the US. A follow-up to Lomax's <i>Sports and the Racial Divide: African American and Latino Experience in an Era of Change</i> this second anthology links post-World War II African American protest movements to a range of contemporary social justice interventions. <p/> Athlete activists have joined the ongoing pursuit for Black liberation and self-determination in a number of ways. Contributors examine some of these efforts including the fight for HBCUs to enter the NCAA basketball tournament; Harry Edwards and the boycott of the 1968 Olympic Games; and US sporting culture in the post-9/11 era. Essays also detail topics like the protest efforts of San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick; the link between the Black Power movement and the current Black Lives Matter movement; and the activism of athletes like Lebron James and Naomi Osaka. Collectively these essays reveal a historical narrative in which African Americans have transformed the currency of athletic achievement into impactful political capital.