Abstract
We welcome you to this special issue of the Sociology of Sport Journal which was envisioned as an opportunity to reimagine and recreate sporting spaces for true racial inclusion and equity. We developed the special issue because of what we saw as an absence of a specific and sustained focus on race and racism in Sport for Development (SfD) as well as an antiracist approach to research and analysis of SfD. This was driven, in part, by the ways in which race; racism; antiracism; and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) permeated U.S. society following the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020. 1 As statements of solidarity were released, equity audits performed, diversity statements crafted, chief diversity officers hired, DEI training mandated, and strategic plans reframed, we found ourselves (as individuals actively engaged in the SfD field) asking about the ways the field was responding in this moment, given its intentional focus on the use of sport to achieve social change outcomes.