Black Sporting Resistance

"Cooper's book serves as a testament to the power of Black resistance and activism in and through sport and its capacity to transcend national borders and cultural divides in the fight for justice." (UMass Boston News) “A strong contribution to sports, politics, and the sociology of race, Black Sporting Resistance indisputably argues that Black athletes and sport organizers have historically been at the forefront of anti-racist political activism. There really is no comparable text to this one.”
- Janelle Joseph (author of Sport and the Black Atlantic: Cricket, Canada, and the Caribbean Diaspora) "Black Sporting Resistance is impressive in scope, breadth, and its mastery of different literatures. It's a tremendously important synthesis of scholarship. Drawing on the tradition of Black internationalism, Cooper theorizes race and resistance to Euro-American imperialism through sport as a global process and dialogue that stretches across both time and space. We can see how Black athletes in different times and places react to organize in opposition to global white supremacy." - Jeffrey Montez de Oca (author of Discipline and Indulgence: College Football, Media, and the American Way of Life during th)