The Black Migrant Athlete Media, Race, and the Diaspora in Sports / Munene Franjo Mwaniki.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mwaniki, Munene Franjo.

Series:

Sports, media, and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Athletes, Black--Social conditions--Western countries.

Athletes, Black.

Black people in mass media--Western countries.

Black people in mass media.

Black people--Race identity--Western countries.

Black people.

Racism--Western countries.

Racism.

African diaspora.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (pages cm)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press, 2017.

Summary:

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 reinforceand re-createstereotypes 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. The Black Migrant Athlete analyzes the construction of race in Western societies through a study of the Black African migrant athlete. Munene Franjo Mwaniki presents ten Black African migrant athletes as a conceptual starting point to interrogate the nuances of white supremacy and of the migrant and immigrant experience with a global perspective. By using celebrity athletes such as Hakeem Olajuwon, Dikembe Mutombo, and Catherine Ndereba as entry points into a global discourse, Mwaniki explores how these athletes are wrapped in social and cultural meanings by predominately white-owned and -dominated media organizations. Drawing from discourse analysis and cultural studies, Mwaniki examines the various power relations via media texts regarding race, gender, sexuality, class, and nationality.

Contents:

Introduction : Black African immigration to the West

Race and sport : situating the Black African athlete

Everyday othering : boundary making and maintenance

Model minorities : origin stories, hard workers, and humanitarians

"Bad" Blacks : contingent acceptance and essentialized blackness

Immigrant reception : nationalism, identity, politics, and resistance

The diasporic athlete : blackness and meaning in the African diaspora

The sporting migrant : antiblack racism and the foreign other

Appendix A: Methodology and data-gathering procedures

Appendix B: Individuals in the study.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781496202840

1496202848

9781496202864

1496202864

OCLC:

994303098