Marlon Lee Moncrieffe

New Black Cyclones (eBook, ePUB)

Racism, Representation and Revolutions of Power in Cycling

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Ex-international cyclist Marlon Lee Moncrieffe examines how the cycling industry is tackling racism within the sport today. By interviewing key players in the professional cycling business he examines the present and future of cycling in light of the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020.

He plans to gather evidence and interviews from across the cycling spectrum, including British Cycling, and professional bodies in the US, Europe and the African continent. The book will heavily feature the voices of elite and professional riders, commentators, grassroots riders and activists.

The book asks the question - what transformations, if any, towards race equity and equality in ethnic representation are we witnessing in the world of cycling - and particularly at the highest levels of the sport. What has been the force of the new Black Cyclones (Black cyclists) in disrupting the white narrative norms of power in the sport - for challenging the status quo?

Each chapter takes a different recent pivotal event that highlighted racial issues in cycling - and examines how it changes our understanding of Black cyclists within the industry, and asks what has changed since?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781399405614
• Artikelnr.: 72250008

Autorenporträt

Marlon Lee Moncrieffe is a former international bike racer and a national, European and World Championships medal winner in track sprint cycling. His debut sports book, Desire, Discrimination, Determination - Black Champions in Cycling was longlisted for the 2021 William Hill Sports Book of the Year, and was the winner of the Sunday Times Cycling Book of the Year award in 2022.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. How far can the bicycle take you?
2. Jesus Christ of the Black cycling community
3. Black squares In white circles
4. When Tao took the knee
5. 'Go back to your own country!'
6. The Biniam BOOM
7. Representing the entire human race of Black women
8. Visiting Velokhaya
9. (Dis)graced in the red, white, and blue
10. European illusions in African dreams
11. 'They'll be crowning white kings and white queens of world cycling - in
Africa!'
12. Internationale Vélo Force (VIF 2020)
13. The Diasporic Turn
14. New Black Cyclones
15. One Love
Acknowledgements
References
Index
About the author

Rezensionen

[Moncrieffe] explains why the sport has been historically inaccessible to many Black people, suggests practical solutions, and draws on exciting new models of cycling emerging all over the world.