The Burden of Over–representation – Race, Sport, and Philosophy Farred Paperback

The Burden of Overrepresentation\nby Grant Farred\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Grant Farred\nTitle: The Burden of Overrepresentation\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Philosophy\nPublisher: Temple University Press,U.S.\nPublication year: 2018\nISBN-13: 9781439911433\nISBN-10: 1439911436\nRRP: \u00A327.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThe 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 conciliat.