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Summary:

"This book reveals how sports provide spaces for marginalized communities and create unique platforms that shift how society defines identity. Each chapter delves into how those identities-such as race, gender, disability, and sexuality-have developed and influenced social change"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction : at the confluence of sport and identity / Andrew M. Colombo-Dougovito, Tracy Everbach, Karen Weiller-Abels
• Section I: Spaces that define
• "Keep it in the locker room" : how athletic departments stifle controversy and dissent / Frank D. LoMonte Dionne L. Koller
• Response : restricting athletes speech puts athletic programs at risk / Paula Lavigne
• On balls, players, tackle boxes, and other footballing options : the politics of being in the NFL rulebook / Joshua D. Rubin
• Response : football / Louis Jenkins
• Shattering the gass ceiling twice : sports journalism framing of Katie Sowers / William P. Cassidy
• Response : women succeed in coaching and family life / Lisa Carlsen
• Queer recreation : LGBTQ sporting spaces, community, and impact / Austin R. Anderson Eric Knee
• Response : voices from the field / Warren Perry
• A "permissible prejudice" : an exploration of the systemic ableist barriers to sport and leisure activities for disabled people / Andrew M. Colombo-Dougovito Suzanna Rocco Dillon
• Response : just because you use a ball chair doesn't mean you're blameless / John Loeppky
• Section II: black athlete as activist
• #SayHerName : the WNBA and black women's athletes' social activism / Tracy Everbach, Gwendelyn S. Nisbett, Karen Weiller-Abels
• Response : WNBA athletes can spur women and girls to speak out about injustice / Brianna Wallace
• How social media gives black NBA athletes a platform to rally around racial injustice during the #BlackLivesMatter movement / Teveraishe Mushayamunda Mildred F. Perreault
• Response : blackness in 2022 : a personal perspective / Daryl A. Carter
• Athletes as activists : exploring audience evaluations of black celebrity athlete activism / Gwendelyn S. Nisbett, Newly Paul, Stephanie G. Schartel Dunn
• Response : being black is life / Rebekah Sears

• Section III: after the lights go out
• Fairness, without the inclusion : a critical discourse analysis of trans-exclusionary sports bans / Vincent Peña
• Response : I am trans. I am human / Karleigh Webb
• In high demand : Friday night prime time and high school athletes with disabilities / Allison R. Tsuchida Nathan M. Murata
• Response : atypical students benefit from Friday night prime time / Greg Taguchi
• Migrant children with disabilities in Italian schools : educational and sport-related experiences / Paolo Lucattini
• Response : the story of "A" / Maria Elena Mastrangelo
• Criticism of stereotypes in paralympism and expectations of media portrayals of Latin American athletes in Rio / Sandra Meléndez-Labrador
• Response : keep quiet and let the results speak for you / Erica María Castaño Salazar
• Conclusion : leveraging sport for justice / Karen Weiller-Abels, Andrew M. Colombo-Dougovito, Tracy Everbach.

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Contributors:

Colombo-Dougovito, Andrew M., 1986- , editor

Everbach, Tracy, 1962- , editor

Weiller-Abels, Karen , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Online version: Not playing around (Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2021] — ISBN 9781793654687; LCCN 2022028240)

Subjects:

Sports — Social aspects

Social change

Marginality, Social

Group identity

Sports

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

xi, 328 pages ; 24 cm

Call Numbers:

GV706.5 .N678 2022

ISBNs:

9781793654670 (hardcover)
1793654670 (hardcover)
9781793654687 (electronic publication) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2022028239

OCLC Numbers:

1334895237