Abstract

Abstract:

This essay concerns the activism and resistance of Black female athletes. The presence of Black female activist athletes corresponds to the duration of their athletic participation at the start of the 20th century. This piece is interested in the gender-specific elements of anti-Blackness to make visible diverse Black women as both targets and activists. I offer a number of examples of Black female activist athletes, past and present, to make visible the specificity of their struggles and the different ways that they have individually and collectively resisted and challenged structures and relations of domination.

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