Frontline Bodies: Sports and Black Struggles for Justice since the Late Nineteenth Century

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. Since the body was the primary target of anti—Black racial oppression, African Americans turned sports into a key medium in th...