Race and Cultural Identity: Playing the Race Game Inside Football

King, Colin Guthrie

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“…These studies also suggest that within such 'limited conditions of equality' young minority players are expected to exercise much greater adaptation to the social and cultural mores of dominant majority populations at clubs and to 'leave their cultural identity at the door'. These findings chime strongly with the work of King (2004aKing ( , 2004b who asserts that the upwardly mobile career trajectories of minority players and their transition from playing into coaching are premised on the successful negotiation of dialogic, non-verbal and ritualized processes through which the attainment of 'cultural passports' and contingent inclusions are granted or withheld within the normative white spaces that define the football workplace.…”

Section: Previous Research On Institutional Racism and Footballmentioning

confidence: 78%

Institutional racism, whiteness and the under-representation of minorities in leadership positions in football in Europe

Bradbury

2013

Soccer & Society

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Section: Previous Research On Institutional Racism and Footballmentioning

confidence: 78%

Institutional racism, whiteness and the under-representation of minorities in leadership positions in football in Europe

Bradbury

2013

Soccer & Society

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“…Despite persistent low-level racism in England and France, these players have chosen to stay with rugby league because it gives them an opportunity to belong, resist and demonstrate their status as minority ethnic men (Falcous and Silk, 2006). In this sense, both the London and French minority ethnic players are challenging entrenched notions of whiteness and blackness -and the invisibility of whiteness in sport (Hartmann, 2007;Long and Hylton, 2002) -and providing counter-hegemonic stories of identity formation and resistance (Carrington, 1998;Ferber, 2007;King, 2004). These counter-hegemonic stories allow for multiple identities and hybrid identities (Brah, 1996;Solomos, 1998), but within the limits of agency defined by their participation in the game.…”

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Negotiations of Being and Becoming

Spracklen

2008

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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This paper is based on new empirical, qualitative research with minority ethnic rugby league players in the South-West of France. Drawing on similar research on rugby league in the north and the south of England, the paper examines how rugby league, traditionally viewed as a white, working class male game (Collins, 2006;Denham, 2004;Spracklen, 1995Spracklen, , 2001) has had to re-imagine its symbolic boundaries as they are constituted globally and locally to accommodate the needs of players from minority ethnic backgrounds. In particular, the paper examines the sense in which experiences of minority ethnic rugby league players in France compare with those of their counterparts in England (Spracklen, 2001(Spracklen, , 2007, how rugby league is used in France to construct identity, and in what sense the norms associated with the imaginary community of rugby league are replicated or challenged by the involvement of minority ethnic rugby league players in France. Questions about what it means to be (provincial, national) French (Kumar, 2006) are posed, questions that relate to the role of sport in the construction of Frenchness, and in particular the role of rugby league (and union).

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“…Similarly to the ways in which the acceptance of black football players has been shown to be determined by their ability to assume the language and practices of whiteness (King, 2004), women in football are cognizant of how WOMEN TRAINEE COACHES IN A MEN'S SPORT 5 they must perform and negotiate their gendered identities if they are to be accepted as entitled members of football culture.…”

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Women Training to Coach a Men’s Sport

Fielding‐Lloyd

Meân

2016

Communication & Sport

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Despite increasing female participation in English football (aka soccer), the sport remains rooted in the values and discursive practices of orthodox masculinity. This is exemplified by the English Football Association (FA), which has been criticized for its ineffective responses to addressing the inclusion and progression of women as players and workers within the organization. Female membership in male-dominated organizations is not readily achieved, given the dominance of masculinist discourses and the risks of overtly challenging these. In this study, we explored the discursive management of gendered and/or footballing identities from interviews with participants in an English regional FA’s women-only football coach education program. All of the participants described the peripheral positioning of women in English football. Analysis identified evidence of both collaboration with and resistance to the dominant masculinist discourses in the accounts of their experiences in football, while also reproducing the most valued footballing identities and knowledge as male. We connect this to the complexities of negotiating and managing gendered identities for women in male-dominated organizations. All of the participants described the value and benefits of women-only coach education and the majority noted they would prefer women-only coach education in future.

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Race and Cultural Identity: Playing the Race Game Inside Football

Cited by 43 publications

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Institutional racism, whiteness and the under-representation of minorities in leadership positions in football in Europe

Institutional racism, whiteness and the under-representation of minorities in leadership positions in football in Europe

Negotiations of Being and Becoming

Women Training to Coach a Men’s Sport

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