ABSTRACT

Scholars working in anthropology, sociology, literary studies, and science and technology studies have also deployed this concept of entanglement to various ends. The analytic of racial entanglements is productive in drawing attention ‘to those sites in which what was once thought of as separate – identities, spaces, and histories – come together or find points of intersection in unexpected ways’. Douglas Booth uses the concept of entanglement to rethink sport histories under apartheid, where South African black, coloured, Indian, and white male athletes had points of contact within physical activity settings. Jaime Schultz, for instance, critically evaluates how today’s political and racial climate shape recent efforts to commemorate the athletic achievements and injustices suffered by Jack Trice, Ozzie Simmons, and Johnny Bright, three black football players who competed at colleges in Iowa in the early-to-mid twentieth century.