The Burden of Over-representation: Race, Sport, and Philosophy

by Grant Farred

Book Overview

The Burden of Over-representation artfully explores three curious racial moments in sport: Jackie Robinson's expletive at a Dodgers spring training game; the transformation of a formality into an event at the end of the 1995 rugby World Cup in South Africa; and a spectral moment at the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Grant Farred examines the connotations at play in these moments through the lenses of race, politics, memory, inheritance and conciliation,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439911436
• ISBN13: 9781439911433
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"