Cautionary Notes on Whiteness and Sport Studies

• Autores: C. Richard King
• Localización: Sociology of sport journal, ISSN 0741-1235, Vol. 22, Nº. 3, 2005, pág. 8
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This essay offers a critical reading of whiteness studies and its implications for the study of sporting worlds. It argues that, as promising as the deconstruction of whiteness might be, a series of epistemological and political problems accompany such inquiry. After reviewing the emergence of whiteness studies and the recent integration of this field into sport studies, I enumerate the liabilities and blind spots associated with the way many scholars conceptualize whiteness and its proper study. The essay closes with a set of alternatives designed to enhance understandings of race, culture, and power in sporting worlds