We catalog these constraints to capture the larger cultural field of sport as a site of racial commentary and contestation. However, athletic activism and social messaging are also structured-and their impacts shaped-by a range of contextual factors and institutional forces as well as sport’s own unique cultural status and ideological claims. We begin by centering athlete agency and highlighting the distinctive performative, communicative, and symbolic opportunities that sport affords. The emergence of an unprecedented wave of race-based athletic activism in the last decade presents the opportunity to formulate a more critical, cultural theory of the significance and socio-political function of sport in contemporary life.
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