Sport and Challenges to Racism

by Long, Jonathan; Spracklen, Karl

• ISBN13: 9780230236158
• ISBN10: 0230236154
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-12-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

With an international line-up of contributors, this book examines challenges to racism in and through sport. It addresses the different agents of change in the context of wider socio-political shifts and explores issues of policy formation, practices in sport and anti-racism in sport, and the challenge to sport today.

Author Biography

Jonathan Long is Professor at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. His primary research interests are with issues of social justice and social change, which have resulted in him directing a suite of projects on the nature and extent of racism in sport. He is also on the Accreditation Panel for the Equality Standard for professional football clubs. Karl Spracklen is Principal Lecturer in Socio-Cultural Aspects of Sport and Leisure at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. He has published papers on sport, identity and racism and his previous publications include The Meaning and Purpose of Leisure (Palgrave Macmillan). He is an Assessor for the UK Equality Standard for Sport.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Lord Herman Ouseley
Introduction: Positioning Anti-Racism in Sport and Sport in Anti-Racism; J.Long & K.Spracklen
Thinking 'Race' and Ethnicity in (Dutch) Sports Policy and Research; J.van Sterkenburg
PART I: PRACTICES
'In This Shrinking World': 'Race', the Olympics and the Wind of Change; S.Wagg
The Post-Apartheid Scenario in South Africa; S.Ramsamy
Using Charters and Standards to Promote Anti-Racism in Sport; K.Spracklen & J.Long
'What I said was racist - but I'm not a racist': Anti-Racism and the White Sports/Media Complex; B.Carrington
Race Matters In Australian Sport; C.Tatz
PART II: IDENTITIES 
Natural Born Athletes? Australian Aboriginal People and the Double-edged Lure of Professional Sport; D.Adair & M.Stronach
Just a Dream? Structure, Power, and Agency in Basketball; S.N.Brooks
Global Integration in the Nation: The Emergence of Non-white Athletes and Antiracist Initiatives in Norwegian Elite Sport; M.Andersson
Gender and Cultural Diversity in Australian Sport; C.Foley, T.Taylor & H.Maxwell
PART III: CHALLENGES
Marching Altogether? Football Fans Taking a Stand Against Racism; P.Thomas
It's Not as Simple as Black and White: Challenging Racism in Professional Football through Locally Grounded Multi-agency Collaboration; S.Bradbury
Does Diversity in Sport Reduce Racial Prejudice?; G.B.Cunningham
Too Radical? Critical Race Theory and Sport Against Racism in Ireland; K.Hylton
So What Has Changed (and What has to Change)?; J.Long & K.Spracklen
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