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By Ben Carrington

Opposite to the preferred trust that activity is an enviornment principally unfastened from the corrosive results of racism, this e-book argues that racism is obvious all through British game. From enjoying fields and boardrooms of activities enterprises, to the workplaces of activities coverage makers and the media, this publication breaks new flooring in displaying how discourses of 'race' and state proceed to pervade our wearing life.
Looking at a number of activities, together with soccer, rugby league and cricket, this ebook covers key issues such as:
* British nationalism and nationalist ideology
* racial technological know-how and the pictures of Asian and black physicality
* recreation, racism and the law
* black feminism and the problems of race, gender and sport
* the position of the media in perpetuating and difficult racial stereotypes.
Challenging the present liberal view that activity is one sector of society the place 'good race-relations' are built, this publication bargains a wealth of analysis fabric, and a powerful theoretical viewpoint on modern British activity. it's going to as a result be of important curiosity to sociologists, activities reports scholars, game policy-makers and someone with an curiosity in modern British game.

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See also Entine (2000) for an uncritical review of this material, which fails to adequately grasp the complexity of ‘race’ and its (non-)relationship to sports performance. For a useful corrective to Entine’s account, and for a critique which remains attuned to the impact of wider socio-political discourses upon ‘objective’ scientific research, see Barnes et al. (1999). ). ’’ Even more, Wiggins’ call alerts us to the danger that the most well-meaning can fall prey to the traps set by misguided, sometimes malicious, intentions of race thinkers’ (1994: 205).

As with Cashmore’s analysis, Hoberman misreads a symptom for a problem vis-a`-vis racism and sport in America. There is little evidence to show that black working-class families privilege sport any more than white working-class families, and no evidence to suggest that black families do not value the education of their children as highly. The mistake of both Hoberman and Cashmore is to read the lack of black social mobility outside sport as being the result of some cultural ‘dysfunction’ within the ‘abnormal’ black family structure, as opposed to there being real barriers to progression in other areas such as education and employment.

365–369; Metheny, E. (1939) ‘Some Differences in Bodily Proportions between American Negro and White Male College Students as Related to Athletic Performance’, in Research Quarterly, 10, pp. 41–53; Ponthieux, N. and Barker, D. (1965) ‘Relationship Between Race and Physical Fitness’, in Research Quarterly, 36, pp. 468–472; Todd, T. and Lindala, A. (1928) ‘Dimensions of the Body: Whites and American Negroes of both sexes’, in American Journal of Physical Anthropology 7 (1) July–September, pp. 35–120; Worthy, M.

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