Lexington Books
Pages: 256
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Trim: 6½ x 9½
978-1-4985-8953-6 • Hardback • July 2020 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
978-1-4985-8954-3 • eBook • July 2020 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Albert Y. Bimper Jr. is assistant vice president and associate professor of African American studies at Colorado State University.
Albert Y. Bimper Jr.'s participant observer approach towards the continuum of the black athletic experience from youth to college to professional is timeless and necessary in our critical analysis of education, race, and sport. The transparency of Bimper's educational identity through the cultural gauntlet of race and sport will hopefully spread to inspire more student-athletes from all backgrounds to invest in what I deem the ‘scholar-baller’ identity, which will allow them more options for a second career after sport terminates on the fields of play.— C. Keith Harrison, University of Central Florida
In this text, Dr. Bimper skillfully examines and explicates the position and power of sport in the microcosm of American life. He provides an adept assessment of the neoliberal forces that have sought to place a Band-Aid on the cancer of racism using sport as a sedative. This author provides a compellingly unique perspective as he adjusts and readjusts his lens from a student athlete, to a professional athlete, to an athletic administrator and finally through the eyes of accomplished academic. The author provides the reader with a view that few can offer while providing a thought-provoking journey into the depth of race and sport.
— Louis Harrison, University of Texas at Austin