As more and more protests make clear, the bodies of Black people playing sports are not outside history. Indeed, they never have been.

James Cantres
James Cantres is an assistant professor in the Department of Africana, Puerto Rican, and Latino Studies at Hunter College, City University of New York. He is the author of Blackening Britain: Caribbean Radicalism from Windrush to Decolonization (Roman & Littlefield, 2020).