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Abstract: This special issue of Callaloo grew out of an annual Callaloo conference entitled "History, Meaning and the Past," held at Georgetown University in October, 2017. Framed by other scholarly presentations on mostly historical contexts for evaluations and assessments of contemporary issues, the "Sport as Art, as Resistance" panel had been especially energized the year before by the actions of Colin Kaepernick, an NFL quarterback. He had knelt, rather than stood, during the playing of the national anthem before the start of pre-season and regular season games. The response to the panel presentations was such that a special issue was promptly proposed and its editors named. Months later, by the time the call for ... Read More PubDate: 2022-11-21T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: From left, San Francisco 49ers Eli Harold (58), quarterback Colin Kaepernick (7), and Eric Reid (35) kneel during the national anthem before their NFL game against the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016 at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California. Photo courtesy of Abaca Press / Alamy Stock Photo.Colin Kaepernick's protest during the playing of the national anthem throughout the 2016 season of the National Football League sparked a national debate that has touched nearly every corner of the American zeitgeist. While the debate continued and shifted as Kaepernick's protest inspired both vitriol and imitation, the image of Kaepernick kneeling became a lasting symbol which defined civic protest in 21st century. ... Read More PubDate: 2022-11-21T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: "In the diaspora, as in bad dreams, you are constantly overwhelmed by the persistence of the spectre of captivity"The efforts of activists before us have provided us both with the opportunity to live authentic lives in the open and realize our personal and athletic potential through sport. As beneficiaries of such brave efforts, we do not take our responsibility as activists lightly. We believe it is our moral duty to use the platform we have been given to speak out.In 2016, Colin Kaepernick, the quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, began protesting the extrajudicial killing and racial inequality that disproportionately targets Black people and other racialized minorities in the United States. Initially sitting ... Read More PubDate: 2022-11-21T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: After Dani Alves, who picked up a banana thrown by a racist fan (Barcelona versus Villareal ... Read More PubDate: 2022-11-21T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: I did not speak to my grandfather the year before he died. Things got complicated; I was angry for a long time. For some years, since after he left us, since I heard his voice for the last time on an unclear phone line, I have tried to write about his life. I do not know why. Anna Freud wrote that "'eternal rest' can be achieved" for the dead "only after the survivors have performed the difficult task of dealing with their bereavement and of detaching their hopes, demands, and expectations from the image of the dead" (19). This may at first seem like an unremarkable statement, yet in it, Freud in fact effects a subtle but significant reversal: unlike her father, Freud looks at loss from the point of view of the one ... Read More PubDate: 2022-11-21T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: (Excerpted from Be Holding, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020.)April 4, 2015 – TodaySimone Biles. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2016 Summer Olympic Games. Photo courtesy of ... Read More PubDate: 2022-11-21T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Kevin Durant, NBA All-Star, starts the play upcourt for the Brooklyn Nets, 2021. Photo by Dina Livotsky. Used with permission.July 1, 2009. Serena Williams in action against Russia's Elena Dementieva during the Wimbledon Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, Wimbledon, London. Photo courtesy of PA Images / Alamy Stock ... Read More PubDate: 2022-11-21T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: June 27, 2006. Ronaldo de Assis Moreira ("Ronaldinho") and John Paintsil in action during the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany Brazil v Ghana at Signal Iduna Park. Photo courtesy of ... Read More PubDate: 2022-11-21T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Ernie Barnes was born in Durham, N.C., attended North Carolina College (now HBCU North Carolina Central University), and played in the NFL for five years. Barnes is well-known for his unique style of movement in his ... Read More PubDate: 2022-11-21T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: "And suddenly there's this man who has context."This essay asserts that when director Ryan Coogler's two earliest films, Fruitvale Station and Creed, are read together, the sustained engagement reveals how a Black radical imagination acknowledges and dignifies Black life in a context of anti-Black violence. Fruitvale Station not only provides the avenue for Creed's emergence, but it also thoughtfully renders terms for fully imagining Black life while simultaneously exposing the violent systemic forces that curtail it. These destructive, oppressive forces haunt Creed through the intimacy of the family terms used in Fruitvale Station. Thus, in Creed, Coogler transforms Oscar Grant, III into a figure for Black fathers ... Read More PubDate: 2022-11-21T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In September 2016, former Denver Broncos wide receiver Brandon Marshall took a knee during the national anthem to protest police brutality and racial inequality. Air Academy Federal Credit Union and CenturyLink subsequently terminated Marshall's sponsorship agreements. CenturyLink released a statement saying, "We…must stand together to show our allegiance to our common bond as a nation," referring to the national anthem (Sandritter). The "common bond" that CenturyLink refers to steamrolls over any awareness of racial inequality that Marshall and other athletes are protesting.Brandon Marshall's protest is by no means the first time an athlete used his platform to call attention to social issues. Whether it was ... Read More PubDate: 2022-11-21T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Note: On March 12, 1944, the North Carolina College Eagles played a basketball game against the Duke Blue Devils. In the midst of Jim Crow era legislation, the game was considered illegal and an infringement on regional policy and race related sanctions. There were no spectators or reports of the game, and it went undocumented for over 50 years. The Eagles, Blue Devils' game was the first racially integrated college basketball game played in North Carolina and the southern region.* Text borrowed from ESPN film reel by unknown speaker, The Secret ... Read More PubDate: 2022-11-21T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: (Reprinted from Sorcerer's Apprentice, Atheneum, 1986.)If one man conquer in battle a thousand men, and if another conquers himself, he is the greatest of conquerors.Evelyn's problems with her husband, Rudolph, began one evening in early March—a dreary winter evening in Seattle—when he complained after a heavy meal of pig's feet and mashed potatoes of shortness of breath, an allergy to something she put in his food perhaps, or brought on by the first signs of wild flowers around them. She suggested they get out of the house for the evening, go to a movie. He was fifty-four, a postman for thirty three years now, with high blood pressure, emphysema, flat feet, and, as Evelyn told her friend Shelberdine Lewis, the ... Read More PubDate: 2022-11-21T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Identity politics in literature has two sides. The first is the question of propriety: who may speak for whom'1 What boundaries do we place on the artist as limitations to imaginative freedom' Who can claim authenticity' The second is the question of obligation: is an artist required to create out of a sense of cultural solidarity in order to be taken seriously' Does authenticity from a marginalized author require a socially realist approach' If not, then how do we define authenticity in a writer'2Olufemi Terry, who won the Caine Prize in 2010 for his story "Stickfighting Days," writes of the experience's immediate aftermath:I noticed that my rejection of the tag 'African writer' provoked a great deal of debate and ... Read More PubDate: 2022-11-21T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Boxing is instant violence and perhaps the most satisfying kind. It is most greedily digested by the masses who made it into a popular sport. And it is from those masses that the boxers have come.Carry the dream on for yourself; lift it out of the trifling guise of a prizefight celebration and supply the social and economic details and you have the secret dynamics of proletarian aspiration.In 1962, James Baldwin walked out of a boxing match, almost in tears. He had been covering the highly-anticipated prizefight between Floyd Patterson and Sonny Liston in Chicago for Nugget magazine.3 The New York Times gave the event front-page status with the headline: "Liston Knocks Patterson Out in First Round."4 Overcome with ... Read More PubDate: 2022-11-21T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: There, in the dim light of the small boxing room, flies climbed over the heads of fighters and the smell of brick and blood. It was our first time there. Chaflán was taken to a corner of the room where a trainer, talked strong to him, strapping a pair of thin gloves and pulling at his stained drawstrings. It was the way a man talked to his son. I knew this, though I'd never met my own father and would never meet him. I knew this by instinct. Or from the way I always looked at fathers and sons, like a dog at a feast it wasn't welcomed to, where it wouldn't be given even a shred of beef. It was the smell in the room that made me think of that.I was a small boy, living on the streets of Panama City, waiting for ... Read More PubDate: 2022-11-21T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Prior to the beginning of the 1883 racing season, Isaac placed an advertisement in the March 17 edition of the Kentucky Live Stock Record, under the title "First Class Jockey." In a bold move, he offered his services as a professional jockey who could be contracted to ride at a select number of venues: "I will make engagements to ride in the stakes for the coming racing season at Lexington, Louisville, Latonia, Chicago and Saratoga. I will be able to ride at 110 (possibly 107) pounds. My address until the beginning of the Lexington races will be care of Fleetwood Stables, Frankfort, Ky."1 Although he published details as to when and where he was available to ride, he omitted any mention of compensation, leaving the ... Read More PubDate: 2022-11-21T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: When one, in what is called the u.s., thinks "(american) football," one also thinks "NFL." Football is "less completely a 'sport' and more a 'brand' and entertainment 'product' to be moved by marketing men (and women, too), for whom NFL football [is] not fundamentally different from MTV videos or the latest blockbuster movie" (Oriard, 2007, p. 141). A trade organization, the NFL competes with various sectors of entertainment, like music and film, to be top consumer choice among the nation's populus (p. 180).The NFL sells itself—Its stadiums donning Its logo, Its athletes on the sidelines donning Its merchandise, selling said merchandise to Its fans. About a decade ago, with over 100 million fans/consumers, the ... Read More PubDate: 2022-11-21T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: I love sports because it serves my instinctive desire to compete. My affection for writing serves that very same desire, but in the hierarchy of needs falls on the border between esteem and self-actualization. When I combined my passion for sports with my passion for writing, I had no idea it would be the start of an incredible long-distance journey.Sometime around 2007, I started writing a feature film sports drama about a tomboy outsider on a boys' high school track team. Things were going as well as could be expected for a novice writer. I had some issues with plot and structure, but nothing I couldn't eventually work out. Because the story takes place in the mid-1970s, I thought it would be a good idea to ... Read More PubDate: 2022-11-21T00:00:00-05:00
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