Samantha N. Sheppard is the Mary Armstrong Meduski ’80 Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies in the Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION: SPORTING BLACKNESS AND CRITICAL MUSCLE MEMORY ON SCREEN 1. HISTORICAL CONTESTANTS IN BLACK SPORTS DOCUMENTARIES2. RACIAL ICONICITY AND THE TRANSMEDIA BLACK ATHLETE 3. BLACK FEMALE INCOMMENSURABILITY AND ATHLETIC GENDERS4. THE REVOLT OF THE CINEMATIC BLACK ATHLETE CONCLUSTION: THE FITNESS OF SPORTING BLACKNESS Notes Bibliography Index

Samantha N. Sheppard is the Mary Armstrong Meduski ’80 Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies in the Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION: SPORTING BLACKNESS AND CRITICAL MUSCLE MEMORY ON SCREEN 1. HISTORICAL CONTESTANTS IN BLACK SPORTS DOCUMENTARIES2. RACIAL ICONICITY AND THE TRANSMEDIA BLACK ATHLETE 3. BLACK FEMALE INCOMMENSURABILITY AND ATHLETIC GENDERS4. THE REVOLT OF THE CINEMATIC BLACK ATHLETE CONCLUSTION: THE FITNESS OF SPORTING BLACKNESS Notes Bibliography Index

Samantha N. Sheppard is the Mary Armstrong Meduski ’80 Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies in the Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION: SPORTING BLACKNESS AND CRITICAL MUSCLE MEMORY ON SCREEN 1. HISTORICAL CONTESTANTS IN BLACK SPORTS DOCUMENTARIES2. RACIAL ICONICITY AND THE TRANSMEDIA BLACK ATHLETE 3. BLACK FEMALE INCOMMENSURABILITY AND ATHLETIC GENDERS4. THE REVOLT OF THE CINEMATIC BLACK ATHLETE CONCLUSTION: THE FITNESS OF SPORTING BLACKNESS Notes Bibliography Index