The diversity of Black America in general, and how it pertains to gender in particular, remains understudied in analyses of sports media. To get a better understanding of the Black female athlete in our society today, this project addresses the intersections of race, gender, and nationality/ethnicity in U.S. media. To do this, we use critical discourse analysis to examine the sports media representations of professional basketball players Nnemkadi and Chinenye Ogwumike. As relatively successful second-generation Black African female athletes, we find that the sisters represent a compelling site of analysis as a nexus of crisscrossing power relations. Our discussion focuses on the manipulations of foreign female Blackness to maintain White supremacy by media in the United States specifically, and the West more broadly.
Mother tongue education (MTE) has been a subject of rigorous debate for more than half a century, in both industrialised and developing societies. Despite disparate views on MTE, there is an uneasy consensus on its importance in educational systems, especially in the foundational years. Using the Language Management Framework, the article provides a critical appraisal of MTE discourses in relation to primary teacher education and the quota system of student teacher selection and teacher deployment in Kenya. The article argues that from a language management perspective, these two mechanisms are critical in sustaining and promoting MTE in Kenya, and possibly elsewhere.
In this article I examine the sport media representations throughout the career of now retired Kenyan distance runner Tegla Loroupe. As part of a larger project to examine media representation of African athletes, Loroupe was chosen because of her preeminence as a marathon runner and place as one of the first female runners from Kenya to achieve international success. While Kenyan and African men have been examined and discussed at length and in various ways for their continued superiority in distance running, there is a lack of such research concerning African women. Thus it is the concern of this article to illuminate the kinds of discourses and representations surrounding Loroupe, specifically as they pertain to women in sport, Kenyans and Africans in sport, and the representation of Africa in Western media. Using the methodology for reading sport critically (McDonald and Birrell, 1999) and drawing upon elements of discourse analysis, this article finds and discusses the complex intersections of gender, race, and nationality as they converge upon Loroupe through her media representation.
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