ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on organized resistance within intercollegiate athletics with a focus on student-athlete labor, resource mobilization, and the converging interests of postsecondary institutions and student-athletes. Authors begin by engaging the historical and contemporary contexts for Black student-athlete participation in protests. Then a case analysis is presented of activism by Black male student-athletes in at the University of Missouri during the 2015–2016 academic year. Authors draw from social movement and critical race theories and concepts to explain how and why the mobilization of student-athletes resulted in movement success.
