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- Title
Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen.
- Authors
Witt, Aja
- Abstract
Black female athletes are feminized in Black sports films to lessen their perceived threat to both sports and society. Still, as Sheppard acknowledges in chapter three, Black male athletes remain privileged within the sporting and cinematic context. Samantha N. Sheppard's Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen Oakland: University of California Press, 2020 The rise in athlete activism, and widespread protests by American and international sporting leagues, made headlines in 2020 as part of a broader conversation concerning police violence and racial discrimination.
- Subjects
SPORTS films; RACIAL identity of Black people; ACTIVISM; HIGH school football players; RACE discrimination
- Publication
Black Camera: The New Series, 2022, Vol 13, Issue 2, p500
- ISSN
1536-3155
- Publication type
Book Review
- DOI
doi: 10.2979/blackcamera.13.2.28