Racial Barriers in Eurocentric Sport(ing) Institutions Countering the White Racial Frame

Weems, Anthony J.; Singer, John N.

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“…Racism has been a core issue in the sociological study of sport. Fresh impetus has been given by the emergence of the BLM movement, greater awareness of issues of social justice, and the role of sports organisations (Bradbury et al, 2020;Burdsey, 2011;Carrington, 2010;Dart & Long, 2020;Farrington et al, 2014;Hylton, 2018;Lee & Cunningham, 2019;Love et al, 2019;Weems & Singer, 2017). Within this extensive body of work, the terminology used has not been constant, but contingent upon their geographical location and time of writing (Back, 2009;Cashmore, 1996).…”

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From Ferguson to Gaza. Sport, political sensibility, and the Israel/Palestine conflict in the age of Black Lives Matter

Dart

2021

European Journal for Sport and Society

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In June 2020, Black Lives Matter UK (BLM-UK) posted a series of tweets in which they endorsed the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. Calling for 'targeted sanctions in line with international law against Israel's colonial, apartheid regime,' one tweet claimed that 'mainstream British politics is gagged of the right to critique Zionism'. The tweets were seen by some to be antisemitic and resulted in the English Premier League, the BBC and Sky Sports, which had hitherto been supportive of the Black Lives Matter protests, distance themselves from the Black Lives Matter movement. One month later, during the BLM protests in the USA, Black NFL player DeSean Jackson posted material to his Instagram story that was also viewed as antisemitic. This article unpacks, via these two sports-based incidents, the relationship between anti-racism, antisemitism, and anti-Zionism. I discuss how these tensions are not new, but a clear echo of the tensions that existed in the 1960s and 1970s during the height of the Civil Rights Movement; these tensions continue because the foundational issues remain unchanged. These two incidents raise important questions about how sports organisations operate in a world where sport is seen as 'apolitical' and strive for 'neutrality' but fail to recognise sport is political and that a position of neutrality cannot be successfully achieved. The article assesses the challenges that arise when sports organisations, and their athletes, choose to engage in a certain kind of sport politics.

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From Ferguson to Gaza. Sport, political sensibility, and the Israel/Palestine conflict in the age of Black Lives Matter

Dart

2021

European Journal for Sport and Society

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Public Opinions About Paying College Athletes and Athletes Protesting During the National Anthem

Allison¹,

Knoester²,

Ridpath³

2021

Du Bois Rev.

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Drawing on insights from Critical Race Theory and framing theory, as well as previous research, this study ties together and analyzes public opinions about two racialized and politicized sports-related issues: (1) the financial compensation of college athletes, and (2) athlete protests during the national anthem. Consequently, we highlight racial/ethnic identities, racial attitudes, and political identities as predictors of these public opinions. Data for our analyses come from a nationally representative sample of U.S. adults who were surveyed just prior to the 2016 presidential election. Descriptive results suggest that well over half of U.S. adults opposed having the NCAA pay college athletes; also, about two-thirds of adults viewed athlete protests during the national anthem as unacceptable. Regression results reveal that Black and Latinx adults were more supportive of paying college athletes and athlete protests during the national anthem than White adults. Other people of color were also more likely than White adults to support paying college athletes. Racial attitudes such as a lack of recognition of racial/ethnic inequalities in education and support for Black Lives Matter also shaped public opinions about these issues in expected ways. Finally, we find that political identities were linked to public opinions about these issues even after accounting for racial/ethnic identities and racial attitudes. Overall, this study documents public opinions about these prominent sports-related issues just prior to the 2016 election of a President who particularly racialized and politicized sports issues. Even then, these sports-related issues had been similarly filtered through both a White racial frame that encourages colorblind racism and a counter frame that promotes antiracist activism. Altogether, the present study offers further evidence of how sports provide cultural terrain for individuals to enact and negotiate racialized and politicized views of sports and society and illustrates how these processes were reflected in public opinions in 2016.

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Racial and gender inequality regimes in sport: occupational segregation and wage gaps in the U.S. spectator sports industry

Hindman

Paulsen

2022

European Sport Management Quarterly

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Racial Barriers in Eurocentric Sport(ing) Institutions Countering the White Racial Frame

Cited by 3 publications

References 13 publications

From Ferguson to Gaza. Sport, political sensibility, and the Israel/Palestine conflict in the age of Black Lives Matter

From Ferguson to Gaza. Sport, political sensibility, and the Israel/Palestine conflict in the age of Black Lives Matter

Public Opinions About Paying College Athletes and Athletes Protesting During the National Anthem

Racial and gender inequality regimes in sport: occupational segregation and wage gaps in the U.S. spectator sports industry

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