Social Justice, Sport and Racism: A Position Statement

Love, Adam; Deeb, Alexander; Waller, Steven N.

doi:10.1080/00336297.2019.1608268

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“…Everyday racism is part of a dehumanising process that counteracts all aspects of integration, social connectedness and trust in society. The pride of the multicultural character of the club and neighbourhood articulated by the participants can be understood as a counterstrategy to the racism and prejudice they were subjected to (Love et al, 2019).…”

Section: Racism and Trustmentioning

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Integration into and through sports? Sport-activities for migrant children and youths

Flensner

Korp

Lindgren

2020

European Journal for Sport and Society

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Migration over recent years has meant that issues of integration are high on the agenda. Sports clubs are considered important settings for promoting integration. This notion is reflected in national and international policy documents. This study focuses on how leaders in a non-profit sports club, operating in a community where a majority have a migrant background, work with the stated goal of promoting integration. The aim of this study is to explore how leaders interpret and negotiate their explicit assignment to promote integration and counteract segregation and how they try to implement strategies to reach these goals and also to explore how participants experience the sports club's activities related to aspects of integration. The study takes an ethnographic approach with participant observations and interviews. The results indicate that the leaders' work in terms of integration was related to negotiating diversity, norms, rules and language. Both leaders and participants highlight how the activities enhance feelings of trust despite racism in society and how the leaders worked to create relationships and to make the activities into safe spaces. Whether this work contributes to integration is, however, debatable and the leaders emphasised inclusion as their main strategy and goal.

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Section: Racism and Trustmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integration into and through sports? Sport-activities for migrant children and youths

Flensner

Korp

Lindgren

2020

European Journal for Sport and Society

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“…Scholars have documented an underrepresentation of minority coaches and administrators in sport (Fink & Pastore, 1999; Singer & Cunningham, 2018), and while stacking is not the sole determinant, it does stand to perpetuate the status quo (Chu & Segrave, 1983; Cunningham, 2010; Sack et al, 2005). Stacking limits athlete options, which, in turn, can limit their capacity to assume leadership positions in competition and, subsequently, in coaching and administration (Apoifis et al, 2018; Love et al, 2019).…”

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Media Representations as a Form of Stacking: Male and Female Athletes Featured on Men’s Magazine Covers, 1980–2019

Denham

2020

Communication & Sport

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This study analyzed 264 athlete images featured on the covers of nine men’s magazines across a 40-year period, 1980–2019. Among males, who accounted for 227 (81%) of the 264 athletes, African Americans and Latinos each represented 6 sports, most of which involved team competition, while White males represented 21 sports, many of which were individual. Analyses of position stacking in football showed White players in positions considered “central” to contest outcomes and Black athletes assigned to more “peripheral” roles. Among females, nearly all of whom were White, more than one in three participated in professional wrestling or sports entertainment. Other female athletes represented individual sports such as tennis and swimming. Overall, the study concludes that men’s magazines reproduced stacking patterns observed in earlier research.

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“…There is little discussion about other aspects of Aluko's complaint about the private spaces in which racial comments are made by those working in the sport. Post-racial ideologies stress that there was once racism, but now there is not (Love et al, 2019). These ideas exist alongside as common-sense beliefs that sport is meritocratic, anyone can be successful if they work hard enough, therefore race and racism are denied (van Skerkenburg et al, 2019).…”

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Print Media Narratives of Bullying and Harassment at the Football Association: A Case Study of Eniola Aluko

Velija

Silvani

2020

Journal of Sport and Social Issues

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In this article we draw on critical theory to discuss how power frames the media “narratives” of Eniola Aluko, a Black, female footballer who accused an established (White) football coach of bullying, harassment, and racial comments. We critically discuss data analyzed from 80 print media articles from three British newspapers (with circulation figures ranging from 1.4 million to 135,000 a day), from August 6, 2017 to October 19, 2017. In our findings, we discuss the four dominant themes identified from our analysis to examine how race, gender, and belonging frame Aluko in ways that seek to position her as an outsider and question her legitimacy in the White male space of football. We demonstrate how frames are shaped by, as well as reinforce, existing power relations, and influence how bullying, and racial harassment are represented in media accounts. We argue this type of analysis has implications for our understanding of how the narratives bullying and harassment in sport can be reframed along dominant power lines that question the legitimacy of athletes’ accounts and experiences.

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Social Justice, Sport and Racism: A Position Statement

Cited by 32 publications

References 33 publications

Integration into and through sports? Sport-activities for migrant children and youths

Integration into and through sports? Sport-activities for migrant children and youths

Media Representations as a Form of Stacking: Male and Female Athletes Featured on Men’s Magazine Covers, 1980–2019

Print Media Narratives of Bullying and Harassment at the Football Association: A Case Study of Eniola Aluko

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