Sporting blackness : race, embodiment, and critical muscle memory on screen / Samantha N. Sheppard.

"Sporting Blackness examines issues of race and representation in sports films, exploring what it means to embody, perform, play out, and contest blackness by representations of Black athletes on screen. By presenting new critical terms, Sheppard analyzes not only "skin in the game," or how racial r...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Sheppard, Samantha N. (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
Subjects:	Sports in motion pictures. African Americans in motion pictures. Race in motion pictures.
Physical Description:	xvi, 250 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

Introduction : sporting blackness and critical muscle memory
Historical contestants in black sports documentaries
Racial iconicity and the transmedia black athlete
Black female incommensurability and athletic genders
The revolt of the cinematic black athlete
Conclusion : the fitness of sporting blackness.