Dr Marlon Moncrieffe

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Dr Marlon Moncrieffe is an international award winning cyclist, educationalist and author.

 He is President of the UK's leading educational research society the British Educational Research Association. He is a Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

His international interdisciplinary research crosses the fields of social sciences, arts and humanities, using narrative and biographical methodological approaches with particular focus through the lenses of education, history, sociology, and sport.

Marlon's  international research on the history of cycling and particularly the involvement and lives of elite and professional Black champion cyclists over the last 100 years is respected as world leading interdisciplinary research in methodological design and analysis through arts and humanities and multiple social scientific theories. 

Marlon has shared his groundbreaking work across the world for leading networks including the British Society of Sports History (BSSH) and the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) in the UK, the USA, Germany, Austria, Australia, Canada, South Africa, and via multiple publications in multiple formats and via multiple television broadcasts including The BBC, Eurosport, and ITV Tour de France coverage (see below). He has reviewed articles and written for various international research journals including Sport in Society and Sport in History, and his research and written work has featured in national and international publications such as The Daily Telegraph, The Conversation, The Voice, Velonews, Bicycling, Cycling Weekly, Procycling Magazine.

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Ex-international cyclist Marlon Lee Moncrieffe examines how the cycling industry is tackling racism within the sport today. By interviewing key players in professional cycling, he considers its present and future in light of the Black Lives Matter protests.

Gathering evidence and interviews from the USA, Europe and the African continent – the book features the voices of elite and professional riders, commentators, grassroots riders and activists.

Moncrieffe asks pertinent questions: What transformations, if any, towards race equity and equality in ethnic representation are we witnessing in the world of cycling – and particularly at the highest levels of the sport? What has been the force of the new Black Cyclones (Black cyclists) in disrupting the white narrative norms of power in the sport and for challenging the status quo?

Each chapter takes a different recent pivotal event that highlighted racial issues in cycling, examines how it changes our understanding of Black cyclists within the industry and asks what has changed since.

Contents:

Introduction  

1. How far can the bicycle take you?  
2. Jesus Christ of the Black cycling community
3. Black Squares In White Circles  
4. When Tao Took The Knee  
5. 'Go Back To Your Own Country!'
6. The Biniam BOOM!!!
7. Representing The Entire Human Race of Black Women  
8. Visiting Velokhaya  
9. (dis)Graced in Red, White, and Blue
10. European Illusions In African Dreams
11. 'They'll be crowning White kings And White queens of world cycling in Africa'
12. Internationale Vélo Force (VIF 2020)
13. The Diasporic Turn  
14. New Black Cyclones  
15. One Love