Lisa Sexton: 2 books

Each morning Tyler would sit in his little rocking chair, and I on the floorin front of him with his stiff feet and legs in my hands, as I gently put on his socks. Then we would begin the painful process of getting his legs and feet positioned for the braces. Day after day, as I fastened his braces,...

Commodified and Criminalized examines the centrality of sport to discussions of racial ideologies and racist practices in the 21st century. It disputes familiar refrains of racial progress, arguing that athletes sit in a contradictory position masked by the logics of new racism and dominant white...