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2023
Overview
This chapter begins with Laura Ingraham’s 2018 admonishment to LeBron James to “shut up and dribble” and his public refutation of her criticisms regarding his politics. The chapter then situates this moment of athlete activism, and the backlash that accompanied it, by discussing the long history of African American athletes and women athletes in the United States. The bitter response to athletic pioneers like black boxer Jack Johnson in the 1910s, and the opening up of opportunities for women athletes such as Wilma Rudolph during the Cold War, show how different social contexts impacted athletes’ political possibilities. By highlighting the tensions that accompanied athletes’ efforts to contest systemic racism and patriarchy, this chapter sets the stage for the book’s five case studies.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Subject
ISBN
9780252044915, 0252044916
