A Portrait of Marginality in Sport and Education: Toward a Theory of Intersectionality and Raced-Gendered Experiences for Black Female College Athletes

Simien, Evelyn M.; Arinze, Nneka; McGarry, Jennifer

doi:10.1080/1554477x.2019.1614865

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“…The following study sought to understand how current and retired high-performance equity-deserving athletes understood and experienced Safe Sport. Conducting research on equity-deserving participants is meant to enhance our awareness of the various inequalities that manifest ‘from the complex interactions of social identities’ ( Simien et al, 2019 , p. 410) and enrich our understanding of the oppressive societal and environmental factors that make sport unsafe for underrepresented participants. Further, pursuing Safe Sport research with equity-deserving athletes may inform how to effectively address systemic barriers of inequality that perpetuate unsafe experiences for athletes with marginalised identities.…”

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‘Safe Sport Is Not for Everyone’: Equity-Deserving Athletes’ Perspectives of, Experiences and Recommendations for Safe Sport

2022

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There is a growing concern that the voices of athletes, and in particular, athletes from equity-deserving groups, are unaccounted for in the development and advancement of Safe Sport initiatives. The lack of consideration of the needs and experiences of diverse groups is concerning, given the existing literature outside the context of sport indicating that equity-deserving individuals experience more violence. As such, the following study sought to understand how equity-deserving athletes interpret and experience Safe Sport. Grounded within an interpretive phenomenological analysis, semi-structured interviews were used to understand how athletes with marginalised identities conceptualise and experience Safe Sport. Seven participants, including two Black male athletes, two White, gay male athletes, one Middle Eastern female athlete, one White, female athlete with a physical disability and one White, non-binary, queer, athlete with a physical disability, were asked to conceptualise and describe their experiences of Safe Sport. The findings revealed these athletes perceived Safe Sport as an unrealistic and unattainable ideal that cannot fully be experienced by those from equity-deserving groups. This interpretation was reinforced by reported experiences of discriminatory comments, discriminatory behaviours and systemic barriers, perpetrated by coaches, teammates, and resulting from structural aspects of sport. The findings draw on the human rights literature to suggest integrating principles of equity, diversity and inclusion are fundamental to safeguarding equity-deserving athletes.

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‘Safe Sport Is Not for Everyone’: Equity-Deserving Athletes’ Perspectives of, Experiences and Recommendations for Safe Sport

2022

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“…The selection of athletes in a variety of sport disciplines does not merely rely on their skills and talents, but rather on the basis of social identity. This practice triggers the existing discriminations due to the distinction of gender identity, sexual orientation, and ethnicity in many parts of the world (Denison et al, 2021;Kavoura & Kokkonen, 2021;Simien et al, 2019;Tanasaldy & Palmer, 2019). The social distinction has become an aspect determining the athletes' achievements in particular types of sports and defines the meaning of the athletes' achievement, for example many white people concluded that the success of black athletes is meaningless because blacks are driven by simple animal instincs instead of the heroic and moral character that accounted for the achievements of white athletes (Coakley, 2017).…”

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The identity politics in Indonesian football during the colonial period

Harjo

2022

j. Sport Area

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This research objective is to examine social stratification in the football sector in Indonesia during the colonial period. Social stratification is the beginning of the occurrence of discriminatory treatment differences. This research applies a qualitative research method with a literature study approach. The data sources in this research are obtained from journal articles, books, and mass media relevant to social stratification in the football sector during the colonial period. The selection of information sources used internal and external criticism to sort out the information collected through document study techniques. The data collected is then processed using interactive data analysis techniques to obtain answers to research problems. The research results show that social stratification took place individually and communally. Local football players are in the lowest position, as are football clubs and football federations formed by local communities. The system established by the colonial government placed European and Chinese football players into a higher layer than local players. This distinction triggered discriminatory treatment against local players to reduce the opportunity for football players and clubs to access the field and competitions organized by the federation formed by the Dutch colonial government. This condition, on the one hand, shows the process of imitating the local community towards sports brought by the colonizers. On the other hand, the imitation also contains resistance to discriminatory treatment as well as colonial practices. Changes in such discriminatory conditions are needed so that similar practices do not occur in other life aspects.

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“…), is upheld by inequitable structures and ideologies ( 4 , 5 ), which heightens the raced-gendered marginalizing realities of Black women and unfortunately provides sports fans a lens for making sense of the inequities Black women experience in sports ( 1 , 6 ). Consequently, sports offers a lens for studying Black women's relationship with sexist and racist structures ( 7 ). For example, Candance Story, Athletic Director of Vanderbilt University, is celebrated for being the first Black and first woman Athletic Director in the school's history and the second Black woman in the history of the commodification of big-time collegiate athletics to lead a major (read: wealthy/athletic prestige) athletic department ( 8 ).…”

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Black women diversity leaders' perceptions of organizational inclusivity in college sports

Keaton

2022

Front. Sports Act. Living

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Select collegiate athletic departments have adopted Athletic Diversity and Inclusion Officer (ADIO) positions. ADIOs are formally tasked with the job responsibilities of creating diverse, equitable, and inclusive athletic departments, and many individuals holding the positions are Black men and women. This hermeneutic phenomenological study focused on the leadership of Black women in ADIO positions and examined how their racial and gender identity informed their perceptions of organizational inclusivity. Findings reveal that the intersecting identities of Black women are drawn upon and centered to make sense of what organizational inclusivity is. More specifically, organizational inclusivity is creating contexts that do not mirror Black women's experiences as outsiders within mostly White athletic departments, lived experiences entangled in systems of oppression, specifically sexism and racism (read: intersectionality), and experiences that cultivate Black feminist thought in Black women, as this consciousness is only developed through adverse realities of exclusion. Hence, Black women ADIOs' perception of organizational inclusivity is informed by their own intersectional lived experiences of exclusion in sports and society writ large.

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A Portrait of Marginality in Sport and Education: Toward a Theory of Intersectionality and Raced-Gendered Experiences for Black Female College Athletes

Cited by 34 publications

References 46 publications

‘Safe Sport Is Not for Everyone’: Equity-Deserving Athletes’ Perspectives of, Experiences and Recommendations for Safe Sport

‘Safe Sport Is Not for Everyone’: Equity-Deserving Athletes’ Perspectives of, Experiences and Recommendations for Safe Sport

The identity politics in Indonesian football during the colonial period

Black women diversity leaders' perceptions of organizational inclusivity in college sports

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