Description: "This book probes the cultural forces and legacies at play in three events in sports history, exploring how racial, national, sporting, and personal identities overlap and conflict. The author taps into a deep well of Western philosophy and literature to read the resonances in these three moments"--
Review Quotes:
"Grant Farred has long been our 'prose laureate' at the intersection of sports, philosophy, and politics. With The Burden of Over-representation, he outdoes himself: looking at critical, forgotten moments in our sports history with a lens utterly original and entirely his own."--Dave Zirin, Sports Editor, The Nation magazine