Routledge Handbook of Sport, Race and Ethnicity

John Nauright is Professor and Chair of the Department of Kinesiology, Health Promotion and Recreation at the University of North Texas, USA. Until May 2016 he was Professor of Sport and Leisure Management at the University of Brighton, UK. He is the author and editor of many books including the award winning Making Men: Rugby and Masculine Identity, the Routledge Companion to Sports History and Sport Around the World: History, Culture and Practice. He is currently co-editing the Routledge Handbook of Africa and Sport with Mahfoud Amara and editing the Routledge Handbook of Global Sport.

David K. Wiggins is Professor and Co-director of the Center for the Study of Sport and Leisure in Society at George Mason University, USA. He has published many articles, book chapters, edited books and monographs. His publications include Glory Bound: Black Athletes in a White America, The Unlevel Playing Field: A Documentary History of the African American Experience in Sport and Out of the Shadows: A Biographical History of African American Athletes. He is the former editor of the Journal of Sport History and an Active Fellow in the National Academy of Kinesiology. With Nauright and Alan Cobley, he also co-edited Beyond C.L.R. James: Race and Ethnicity in Sport.