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• Winner of 2015 Outstanding Academic Title 2016
• Winner of 2015 Outstanding Academic Title 2016 (United States)

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9781440800535

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In this important work about the racial dynamics that shape understandings of sport in the US, Martin offers a thoroughly researched and insightful examination of a sport system that left behind the racial segregation of Jim Crow but left intact many of the underlying assumptions that fuel institutional racism... Arguing that the role of race is not tangential, it is foundational (emphasis Martin's), she provides readers with clear and cogent examples of how sport, as an agent of racial socialization, works to maintain the status quo, thwarting efforts to move beyond race by reinventing, repackaging, and reproducing conceptions of whiteness and blackness. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers. - Choice

"In this important work about the racial dynamics that shape understandings of sport in the US, Martin offers a thoroughly researched and insightful examination of a sport system that left behind the racial segregation of Jim Crow but left intact many of the underlying assumptions that fuel institutional racism. . . . Arguing that ""the role of race is not tangential, it is foundational"" (emphasis Martin's), she provides readers with clear and cogent examples of how sport, as an agent of racial socialization, works to maintain the status quo, thwarting efforts to move beyond race by reinventing, repackaging, and reproducing conceptions of whiteness and blackness. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers. * Choice *"

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Lori Latrice Martin, PhD, is associate professor of sociology and African and African American studies at Louisiana State University.

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