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Project Summary

WNBA players don Black Lives Matter jerseys. Quarterback Colin Kaepernick kneels in solidarity with BLM, while other athletes follow. Disabled athletes compete on a global stage but are treated like second-class citizens at home. Openly gay athletes get engaged while audiences support and applaud them. Trans athletes continue to fight ardently for the right to compete with respect to their gender identities. Media coverage of athletes focuses on these political and social actions, and audiences respond. As a conduit, the representation of identity through the media can influence, for better or worse, individual comfort about the increasing diversity of our society; sport has often offered a platform to (re)examine these identities and their acceptance. While many allege that politics and sports do not mix, we argue that sport has always been political. From Jack Johnson to Jesse Owens to Tommie Smith and John Carlos to Billie Jean King and Martina Navratilova to Colin Kaepernick and Megan Rapinoe, athletes often have taken the lead—using their platform to express views on social justice and social movements—to force society to examine the preconceived notions of ability, worth, and identity.

This collection will provide an accessible space for interdisciplinary scholarship and narrative surrounding the intersectionality of sports, media, politics, social justice, and social movements. This edited book, rooted in the theoretical framework of intersectionality, aims to examine how identities coalesce in sports and how sport offers a mechanism for driving social change. We argue that sports have always been political and provided spaces in which marginalized communities can participate. The forum of sport offers a unique platform for shifting how society sees identity and, in turn, how society views the identities of those outside of sport. Athletes’ identities and actions, and the media’s representation thereof, can influence the perceptions of society as a whole and how an individual views themselves. Each included chapter intends to examine how those identities—such as race, gender, disability, and sexuality—have developed and influenced social change. A strong focus in this book will be the representation of lived experiences from both a scholarly perspective and a lived perspective; included will be athletes from marginalized groups as they form their experiences concerning each chapter foci. The discourse will consist of how these lived experiences are a collection of intersectionality and how they align with the theory presented. Sport can highlight societal injustice; yet it also offers opportunities for unity in pursuit of a fair, equitable and just society. This interdisciplinary collection seeks to emphasize scholars and writers who will examine sport, media, and society and how they shape popular thought on political and social issues. As noted above, we also intend to include stakeholder narrative as a part of each chapter to provide first-hand accounts of athletes or other sports stakeholders’ lived experiences.

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