Frontline Bodies: Sports and Black Struggles for Justice since the Late Nineteenth Century
By Nicolas Martin-Breteau, Damion L. Thomas
Narrated by: Amir Abdullah
Unabridged — 10 hours, 36 minutes
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By Nicolas Martin-Breteau, Damion L. Thomas
Narrated by: Amir Abdullah
Unabridged — 10 hours, 36 minutes
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In Frontline Bodies, Nicolas Martin-Breteau argues that sports are not-and have never been-purely about entertainment for Black Americans. Instead, beginning in the 1890s during Reconstruction, Black Americans proactively used athletics as a tactic to fight racial oppression.
Martin-Breteau considers the work of Edwin B. Henderson, a prominent Black physical educator, civil rights activist, and historian of Black sports. Training Black children as athletes, Henderson felt, would work both to...
Martin-Breteau considers the work of Edwin B. Henderson, a prominent Black physical educator, civil rights activist, and historian of Black sports. Training Black children as athletes, Henderson felt, would work both to...



