EP 25: Harlem’s Chief Representatives: Black Soccer Radicalism in New York City, 1928-1949 (May 2023)

Tom McCabe hosts Jermaine Scott for a presentation titled, “Harlem’s Chief Representatives: Black Soccer Radicalism in New York City, 1928-1949.” Jermaine is an Assistant Professor of African American, African Diasporic, and Sport History at Florida Atlantic University. His research interests include the cultural politics of sport, Black politics, Black diaspora studies, Black popular culture, and postcolonial studies. His manuscript-in-progress, Black Soccer: Football and Black Politics in the African Diaspora, seeks to understand how Black athletic collectives across the African Diaspora negotiated the colonial and racial constitution of modern sports, and football/soccer in particular. His writings have been included in ESPN’s The Undefeated, the African American Intellectual History Society’s Black Perspectives, the Journal of Sports History, and the Journal of African American History. Podcast produced by Brian Quarstad. Music created by LiteSaturation and found at Pixabay. View the video of the session at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJtKJCJQaKU&list=PLF9oL3yRaMyyYqsS1Qqj6XxUV8RU6p4tC&index=26&t=797s&pp=iAQB For more US soccer history, visit the SASH website at https://www.ussoccerhistory.org/