Humanities & Social Sciences
Political bodies. Sport in Black American struggles for justice since the late 19th century
by Nicolas Martin-Breteau
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At the end of the nineteenth century, racist violence directed against the African-American community destroyed the historic gains made through the abolition of slavery a generation earlier. Because the body is the primary target of racial oppression, Black Americans then made sport one of the supports in their struggles for dignity, equality and justice. Through extensive archival work, Nicolas Martin-Breteau shows how the city of Washington was the little-known cradle of this programme of individual and collective upliftment and emancipation that continues to influence Black mobilisations in the United States.
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At the end of the nineteenth century, racist violence directed against the African-American community destroyed the historic gains made through the abolition of slavery a generation earlier. Because the body is the primary target of racial oppression, Black Americans then made sport one of the supports in their struggles for dignity, equality and justice. Through extensive archival work, Nicolas Martin-Breteau shows how the city of Washington was the little-known cradle of this programme of individual and collective upliftment and emancipation that continues to influence Black mobilisations in the United States.
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Author Biography
Nicolas Martin-Breteau is a historian on the United States, Associate Professor at the Université de Lille and member of the Centre d’études en civilisations langues et lettres étrangères (CECILLE). His research are about African-American history, the history of racism and anti-racism. His translation of the work by W. E. B. Du Bois, The Philadelphia Negro : a social study (1899) is published in 2019 by Éditions La Découverte.
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- Publisher Éditions de l'EHESS
- Orginal LanguageFrench
- ISBN/Identifier 9782713228124
- Publication Country or regionFrance
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 25 EUR
- Pages392
- ReadershipProfessional and Scholarly
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year2020
- Dimensions14x21,5 cm
- Illustration35 images in black and white
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