Editors:
- Michael Gennaro, Ph.D., Grambling State University
- Saheed Aderinto, Ph.D., Western Carolina University.
Sport, historically and presently, holds significant value and has an intricate relationship in African societies. For many Africans, sports are a way of life, a site of cultural heroes, a way out of poverty and social mobility, and/or a site for leisurely play. This volume seeks to explore how sports can render a window to unlocking complex social, political, economic, and gendered relations across Africa and the Diaspora. It will focus on the many ways in which sport uniquely reflects changing cultural trends at diverse levels of African societies. There has been a noticeable upsurge in the scholarship on African sports, and this volume will complement and expand on recent works to highlight the importance, variety, and impact of sport within the African continent and of African Diaspora.
Objective
This edited book will be a collection of well-researched essays that identify and examine the various interconnections of sports, Africa, and the African Diaspora. We seek both theoretical and empirical submissions from scholars across the humanities and social sciences.
Topics for consideration may include, but are not limited to:
- Sport and Leisure in an African Context
- Racism and Sport
- Colonialism
- Sport and Ethno-cultural Identity
- Consumption of Sport
- Regional Variations of Sport
- Precolonial Sport and Sporting Traditions
- Politicization of Sport and Political Action
- Nation-building and Sport
- Sport and Labor
- Sport and Entrepreneurship
- Sport and Fandom
- Sports and the African Diaspora
- Africans and the Olympics/International Competitions
- Children, Youth, and Sport
- Women, Gender, and Sexualities in African Sport
- Nationalism and Sport
- Sport, Corruption, and Violence
Interested contributors should submit a short (200-250 word) proposal and CV via email to Prof. Michael Gennaro and Prof. Saheed Aderinto at: africansporthistory@gmail.com
Proposals due November 1st, 2016; Full chapter contributions (no longer than 10,000 words, including Works Cited) should be submitted in Chicago style, by February 1st, 2017.
