Sport and Challenges to Racism [Hardcover]

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.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 Bibliography

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