5 “Change Starts with Us”: The Issue of Media Representation of Athletes’ Activism for Black Lives

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. 1 Sports, Politics, and Capitalism or: The Immoral Corruption of a Human Pleasure 1
4. Section I: Sports, Politics, and Corruption
5. 2 Politics, Corruption, and Urban Sport in Chicago Racing: The Paul Powell Shoebox Scandal and the Bribery of Otto Kerner 11
6. 3 The Great Australian ‘Sting’: How and Why Melbourne Became the World’s Sporting Capital 37
7. Section II: Sports, Politics, and Racism
8. 4 In the Land of Dreamy Dreams: Tennis and the Nexus of Class and Race in New Orleans, 1876–1976 69
9. 5 “Change Starts with Us”: The Issue of Media Representation of Athletes’ Activism for Black Lives 101
10. 6 The Revival of Athlete Activism(s): Divergent Black Politics in the 2016 Presidential Election Engagements of LeBron James and Colin Kaepernick 119
11. Section III: Sports, Politics, Sexual Abuse and Homophobia
12. 7 #MeToo, Larry Nassar, and Sexual Abuse in Youth Sports 143
13. 8 Hegemonic Masculinities and the Fear of Being Gay in the NHL 167
14. Contributors 185
15. Index 187