White Power and Sport

King, C. Richard; Leonard, David J.; Kusz, Kyle W.

doi:10.1177/0193723506296821

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“…We have already used the example of the US in exploring the socio-religious sacred, but it is arguably more common for sport here to be tied to the valuation of conservative values that are irreducible to Christianity, or any other religion, including the promotion a white cultural nationalism (Kusz, 2007;Silk, 2012). This returns us to Brown's (2006) analysis of the divergent political alliances that exist between neoconservatism and neoliberalism in the US.…”

Section: The Sporting Secular Sacredmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The bio-political sacred also possesses affinities with, and can be seen as developing in the context of, certain secular sporting sacred values. King, Leonard and Kusz (2007), for example, explore how a white, masculine, cultural nationalism often underpins performative issues in sport, including issues relating to doping, and highlight the importance of recognizing the racially inflected and gendered character of the bio-political sporting sacred (see also Kusz, 2007;Darnell, 2010).…”

Section: The Contested Modalities Of Sport As Sacredmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Re-Conceptualizing Sport as a Sacred Phenomenon

Shilling

Mellor

2014

Sociology of Sport Journal

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Sociological studies of sport have established their subject matter as significant to a wide range of socio-cultural concerns. Despite a broad consensus about its global importance, however, the reasons for the particular, even 'extraordinary', societal importance of sport today remain deeply contested. Most studies account for it by highlighting its entanglement within a range of secular phenomena including state building, rationalization, bio-political regulation, and the 'controlled-decontrolling' of bodies and affects. Occupying a more marginal position within the discipline, others focus on the religious or quasi-religious characteristics of sport. Our paper suggests that neither of these positions, on their own, is best placed to capture the nature and implications of sport's particular centrality to social life.Proposing a new theoretical approach to the subject that places competing conceptions of what we refer to as the 'sporting sacred' at the centre of discussion, we outline, via a reconceptualization of the writings of two major classical theorists, Durkheim and Weber, a number of contrasting modalities through which sport is prized within contemporary society.These modalities, which embrace both secular and religious phenomena, can, we suggest, provide new insight into the divergent paths along which sports are being 'pulled' and steered in the modern era.

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Section: The Sporting Secular Sacredmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Contested Modalities Of Sport As Sacredmentioning

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Re-Conceptualizing Sport as a Sacred Phenomenon

Shilling

Mellor

2014

Sociology of Sport Journal

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“…As an institution, athletics, recreation, sport, and/or leisure can create and exemplify not only race-based inequalities, but social class divisions as well (King, Leonard, & Kusz, 2007;Messner, 2009). According to cultural theorist Pierre Bourdieu (1978Bourdieu ( , 1984Bourdieu ( , 1988, there is a relationship between sporting practices, corporeal engagement, and social position, and it is important to consider these constructs together.…”

Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

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Submersed in Social Segregation

DeLuca

2013

Journal of Sport and Social Issues

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This article examines the ways in which upper middle class families acquire, transmit, and preserve their social and cultural capitals through membership at the Pine View Swim and Tennis Club, a semiprivate facility located near a major mid-Atlantic city in the United States. Drawing on Cultural theorist Pierre Bourdieu's theorizing on sport participation and social class position, as well as 4 years of ethnographic investigation, I argue that the pool, as a cultural field, maintains socially segregated boundaries offering members a significant, yet hidden vehicle through which they can facilitate their class and race-based privilege. Specifically, Pine View fosters an important sense of community and belonging in and through members, as well as an exclusive social learning opportunity, thus contributing to the (re)production of their White, privileged habitus.

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“…This body of work has been informed by and contributed to some of the most cutting-edge, critical theoretical work in ethnic and racial studies: in analysing how ideologies of race and racism itself are made in the popular imagination (see e.g. Cole and Andrews 1996;St Louis 2003); in understanding the power, pervasiveness and complexity of racial formations in the contemporary post-civil rights, post-colonial era (Boyd 2003;Carrington 2010); and in exploring innovative concepts such as colour blindness (Leonard 2004), blackness theory (Andrews 1996;Leonard forthcoming) and critical whiteness studies (King et al 2007).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Beyond the sporting boundary: the racial significance of sport through midnight basketball

Hartmann¹

2012

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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Sport is among the most potent institutions in the production, maintenance and contestation of race in the modern world. The last decade has witnessed a significant increase of sport-based research on the cutting edge of theorizing race and racism in the post-civil rights, postcolonial era. Nonetheless, the study of sport has yet to be seriously engaged by mainstream social scientists. This paper argues that sport scholars need to better demonstrate the powerful, even irreducible racial significance of sport in politics, public policy and popular culture. This argument is illustrated and elaborated with findings from an ongoing, multifaceted research project on midnight basketball in the USA. Key points include: the complexity of racial imagery in and around sport; sport's legitimating functions for racialized neo-liberalism; and the impact of sport and race politics on federal crime policy. Revealed throughout is a more sophisticated understanding of the centrality and complexity of contemporary racial formations.

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White Power and Sport

Cited by 34 publications

References 23 publications

Re-Conceptualizing Sport as a Sacred Phenomenon

Re-Conceptualizing Sport as a Sacred Phenomenon

Submersed in Social Segregation

Beyond the sporting boundary: the racial significance of sport through midnight basketball

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