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

"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, sociolo...

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Autor principal: Mwaniki, Munene Franjo
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2017.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Black African Immigration to the West; 1. Race and Sport: Situating the Black African Athlete; 2. Everyday Othering: Boundary Making and Maintenance; 3. Model Minorities: Origin Stories, Hard Workers, and Humanitarians; 4. "Bad" Blacks: Contingent Acceptance and Essentialized Blackness; 5. Immigrant Reception: Nationalism, Identity, Politics, and Resistance; 6. The Diasporic Athlete: Blackness and Meaning in the African Diaspora; 7. The Sporting Migrant: Antiblack Racism and the Foreign Other.
  • Appendix A: Methodology and Data- Gathering Procedures
  • Appendix B: Individuals in the Study
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.