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Only a Black Athlete Can Save Us Now by Grant Farred

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A call to arms exploring the protest movements of 2020 as they reverberated through the athletic world

Starting with the refusal of George Hill of the Milwaukee Bucks to participate in an August 2020 playoff game following the shooting of Jacob Blake by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Grant Farred shows how the Covid-restricted NBA "bubble" released an energy that spurred athletes into radical action. They disrupted athletic normalcy, and in their grief and rage against American racism they demonstrated the true progressivism lacking in even the most reformist-minded politicians and pundits. Farred goes on to trace the radicalism of black athletes in a number of sports, including the WNBA, women's tennis, the NFL, and NASCAR, locating contemporary athletes in a lineage that runs through Muhammad Ali as well as Tommy Smith and John Carlos at the 1968 Olympics.

Only a Black Athlete Can Save Us Now uses sport as a point of departure to argue that the dystopic crisis of our current moment offers a singular opportunity to reimagine how we live in the world.

Forerunners: Ideas First is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital publications. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.



About the Author

Grant Farred is author of An Essay for Ezra: Racial Terror in America; Martin Heidegger Saved My Life; In Motion, At Rest: The Event of the Athletic Body;and What's My Name? Black Vernacular Intellectuals, all published by Minnesota.




Book Information
ISBN 9781517913373
Author Grant Farred
Format Paperback
Page Count 130
Imprint University of Minnesota Press
Publisher University of Minnesota Press
Weight(grams) 113g
Dimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm * 6mm

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