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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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The Black Migrant Athlete: Media, Race, and the Diaspora in Sports

The Black Migrant Athlete: Media, Race, and the Diaspora in Sports

Mwaniki, Munene Franjo

Hardcover

Series: Sports, Media, and Society

Sports GeneralGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0803288476
ISBN13: 9780803288478
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: Sep 1 2017
Pages: 270
Weight: 1.22
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The popularity and globalization of sport have led to an ever-increasing migration of Black athletes from the global South to the United States and Western Europe. While the hegemonic ideology surrounding sport is that it brings diverse people together and ameliorates social divisions, sociologists of sport have shown this to be a gross simplification. Instead, sport and its narratives often reinforce and re-create stereotypes and social boundaries, especially regarding race and the prowess and the position of the Black athlete. Because sport is a contested terrain for maintaining and challenging racial norms and boundaries, the Black athlete has always impacted popular (white) perceptions of Blackness in a global manner.


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