Repairing Play: A Black Phenomenology

Description: "Repairing Play tries to wrest the narrative of play away from white, European notions that rely primarily on pleasure by including different connotations of play that do not rely on the access to the conditions of leisure"--

Review Quotes: "Repairing Play: A Black Phenomenology highlights the long-overdue need to explore how the American conceptualization of play becomes romanticized through a White racial lens. As the title suggests, author Aaron Trammell argues that our understanding of play is awed, incomplete, and even harmful."
--American Journal of Play

"Repairing Play may inspire other scholars interested in research on sports to revisit conventional definitions that erase or further marginalize the experiences of Black people and others in America and in other contexts."
--International Journal for Sport and Religion