Taking a Knee, Making a Stand: Social Justice, Trump America, and the Politics of Sport
This essay analyzes the role of sport protest under the current United States presidential administration. Protest has long been a feature of sporting rituals; social unrest in this realm is not new. However, at this moment, activism in sport allows us to see larger political alliances, affinities,...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
2019
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Quest
Year: 2019, Volume: 71, Issue: 2, Pages: 252-265 |
Further subjects: | B
class stratification
B Gender inequality B Trump America B Sport protest B Racism |
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Summary: | This essay analyzes the role of sport protest under the current United States presidential administration. Protest has long been a feature of sporting rituals; social unrest in this realm is not new. However, at this moment, activism in sport allows us to see larger political alliances, affinities, and solidarities in a particularly useful way. I argue that the world of sport is fostering discussion, debate, and dissent that are uncommon and largely unavailable in other spaces, which, in turn, is opening up a new counterpublic. I offer two examples of challenges athletes have made to anti-Black racism, class inequality, and sexism, with one highly visible, and one less visible. And I contend that these actions are refusals that both draw on and differ from the iconic sporting refusal of the 1960s Civil Rights era-the image of the Black athlete standing alone on the victory stand-by highlighting the role of symbolic action in prompting democratic deliberation. |
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ISSN: | 1543-2750 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Quest
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/00336297.2018.1551806 |