Sports and the Racial Divide, Volume II

Michael E. Lomax is former professor of sport history at the University of Iowa. He is author or editor of several books, including Major League Baseball between World War II and the Korean War, 1945-1951 and Sports and the Racial Divide: African American and Latino Experience in an Era of Change, the latter published by University Press of Mississippi. His second book, Black Baseball Entrepreneurs, 1902-1931: Negro National and Eastern Colored Leagues, won a book award from the Society for American Baseball Research. Billy J. Hawkins is professor of sport sociology in the Department of Health and Human Performance. He is author of The New Plantation: Black Athletes, College Sports, and Predominantly White NCAA Institutions and coauthor of Sport, Race, Activism, and Social Change: The Impact of Dr. Harry Edwards’ Scholarship and Service.

Sports and the Racial Divide provides a rich sociohistorical account of the role sports and athletes play in contemporary political activism." - John N. Singer, associate professor of sport management in the School of Education and Human Development at Texas A&M University

• Prologue: The Paradox of Race and SportMichael E. Lomax1. "No Colored Athletes Allowed": The Historically Black College Challenge to the NCAAKurt Kemper2. Revisiting the Revolt: Harry Edwards and the Revolt of the Black Athlete Michael E. Lomax3. The Activist Athlete: Contextualizing the Collision of Politics and Sports in the Twenty-First CenturyAmy Bass4. The Decompartmentalization of the Political Voice: The Conversion of Athletic Capital and Political CapitalBilly Hawkins5. Doomed: Colin Kaepernick’s Collusion Claim against the NFLSarah K. Fields6. Black Women Athletes, Protest, and Politics: An Interview with Amira Rose DavisAshley Farmer7. For the Movement and Not for the Moment: Harry Edwards’s Persistence, from the Revolt of the Black Athlete to Black Lives MatterBilly HawkinsEpilogueDavid K. WigginsAbout the ContributorsIndex