Full Dissidence: Notes from an Uneven Playing Field By : Howard Bryant
Book Excerpt :
A bold and impassioned meditation on injustice in America that punctures the illusion of post-racism in our country and in sports by interrogating both as places where authoritarianism looms large.Whether the issues are protest, labor, patriotism, or class division, it is clear that sports are no longer simply fun and games. Rather, they are a hotbed of fractures that define their respective industries and provide allegories for society at large. It is this spirit of sports and societal intersectionality that informs the nine essays--all original--in Full Dissidence. In three parts--Protest, Belonging, and Corruption---Bryant writes about what Colin Kaepernick exposed in our culture, the militarization of sports, police propaganda, the corporate assault on civil liberties, the collisions of race and identity, and the kleptocracy that has forced America to ask itself if its beliefs of freedom and democracy are more than just words.We see it in sports, through the player-owner
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