NEW RELEASE · AUGUST 2026
SportsCrit™: Teaching the Tough Plays
Sport is never just a game. Every field, court, locker room, broadcast, and cheering section tells a story about who belongs, whose body matters, whose labor is valued, whose voice is heard — and who is expected to play by rules they never helped write.
Through nine powerful tenets, Dr. Gyasmine George-Williams reveals how race, gender, power, history, labor, identity, and resistance shape the sports we love — and gives educators, students, athletes, coaches, and fans the language to confront what too often goes unnamed.
Learn to see the game differently. Then help rewrite it.
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Sport is never just a game.
SportsCrit™: Teaching the Tough Plays equips educators, students, scholars, sport professionals, and advocates with a critical framework for examining how race, power, identity, media, history, and resistance shape sport.
This direct-from-the-author edition is personally signed by Dr. Gyasmine George-Williams. For course adoption or institutional orders of 10 or more copies, use the institutional inquiry form.
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PRAISE FOR SPORTSCRIT™
“SportsCrit™ is a bold response to the times and a daring call to action in the field, study, and practice of sports education. This book is sure to become required reading.”
Tabatha L. Jones Jolivet, PhD · Educator, Researcher, Scholar, Minister, and Grassroots Organizer
“This book takes the risk of making explicit political demands. It does so by offering experience-based insights into antiracism and demonstrating how to apply them in the classroom.”
Hector Mackie, PhD · Assistant Professor of Public Health, Cal Poly Pomona
“Dr. George-Williams invites readers not only to understand injustice in sport but to take responsibility for disrupting it.”
Guadalupe Maldonado Andrade, PhD · Assistant Professor, Plant Science Department, Cal Poly Pomona
INSIDE THE BOOK
The Plays Nobody Wants to Call
Because loving sport should never require looking away from injustice.
The NIL Era
Title IX
The WNBA
Olympic Displacement
Athlete Mental Health
Misogynoir
Love Is at the Root of Resistance: Strategies of Activism, Advocacy, and Liberation is a practical handbook for people seeking to turn conviction into meaningful, sustainable action. Grounded in Critical Race Theory, Black Feminist Thought, and Community Cultural Wealth, it introduces the Activism Growth Model™ and Black Athlete Activist Leadership Model™ as frameworks for activists, educators, students, athletes, and their supporters.
Written by Dr. Gyasmine George-Williams. Paperback, 170 pages.
ALSO BY DR. G · 2021
Love Is at the Root of Resistance
Strategies of Activism, Advocacy, and Liberation
A practical handbook for people seeking to turn conviction into meaningful, sustainable action. Grounded in Critical Race Theory, Black Feminist Thought, and Community Cultural Wealth, it introduces the Activism Growth Model™ and the Black Athlete Activist Leadership Model™ as frameworks for activists, educators, students, athletes, and their supporters.
Adopted as a required course text at the University of La Verne and the University of Michigan.