Heritage as hate: racism and sporting traditions

Yearwood, Gabby M. H.

doi:10.1080/02614367.2018.1497683

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“…When 'alternative facts' become commonsensical and taken-for-granted realms of 'truth', spaces of leisure offer the venue to shore up or challenge neoconservative ideologies. As Gabby Yearwood (2018) illustrates in his analysis of the University of Texas-Austin game song and corresponding rituals, institutional narratives transform myths into socio-historical facts that gain the power of 'truth' through the force of tradition. Such acts, as also shown in the work on collegiate and professional mascots in the U.S. sporting landscape (Guiliano, 2015;King, 2016;Spindel, 2006), validate the performance of tradition while suppressing forms of protest.…”

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Leisure and the racing of national populism

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While leisure, race, and national populism have been minimally linked and theorized in the literature, we take this moment, during the global turn to national populism and conservative regimes, to center leisure and race in the politics of today. While theorizing the link to leisure and national populism, we center how the turn towards ethno-nationalist populism derives from the workings of race, alongside class, caste, and ethnicity, in various global north and global south leisure contexts. We provide an introduction that puts in conversation the realms of leisure (in all its possibilities), race, and the various modes of national populism. Therefore, we provide both the important theoretical foundations to understanding these relationships while offering numerous instances of such shifts to national populism. In particular, we start the conversation with a case of the realm of art, sport, and protest as a way to pull out the extraordinary links to social phenomenon, power, and theory.

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“…For example, Christopher Columbus is nationally recognized and celebrated every year on Columbus Day despite the atrocities he perpetrated against Indigenous communities (Eason et al, 2021). It has been argued that normalizing these environmental symbols of oppression (e.g., Columbus Day) subtly reinforces racist sentiments and implicitly promotes White supremacy (Yearwood, 2018). In addition, evidence suggests that these impacts are not mere accidents; for instance, most of the schools with Confederate namesakes were given those names during the Civil Rights Movement, after the Brown v. Board of Education (1954) ruling (Buffington, 2017).…”

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How Microaggressions Reinforce and Perpetuate Systemic Racism in the United States

Skinner-Dorkenoo

Sarmal

André

et al. 2021

Perspect Psychol Sci

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The consequences of racial microaggressions are most often discussed at an interpersonal level. In this article, we contend that microaggressions play an important role in maintaining systems of racial oppression beyond the interpersonal context. Specifically, we illustrate how microaggressions establish White superiority in the United States by othering people of color (e.g., treating people of color as if they are not true citizens) and communicating that they are inferior (e.g., environmental exclusions and attacks, treating people of color as second-class citizens). We also present evidence that microaggressions play a role in protecting and reinforcing systemic racism. By obscuring systemic racism (e.g., false color blindness, denial of individual racism) and promoting ideas that maintain existing systemic inequalities (e.g., the myth of meritocracy, reverse-racism hostility), microaggressions provide cover and support for established systems of oppression. Overall, we find considerable evidence—from both empirical studies and real-world examples—that microaggressions contribute to the maintenance of systems of racial oppression in the United States. We conclude with a discussion of how we might begin to challenge this cycle by increasing awareness of systemic racism and the microaggressions that aid in its perpetuation.

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“…For example, Christopher Columbus is nationally recognized and celebrated every year on Columbus Day, in spite of the atrocities he perpetrated against Indigenous communities (Eason et al, 2021). It has been argued that normalizing these environmental symbols of oppression (e.g., Columbus day) subtly reinforces racist sentiments and implicitly promotes White supremacy (Yearwood, 2018). Additionally, evidence suggests that these impacts are not mere accidents; for instance, most of the schools with Confederate namesakes were given those names during the Civil Rights movement, following the Brown v. Board of Education ruling (Buffington, 2017).…”

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How Microaggressions Reinforce and Perpetuate Systemic Racism in the U.S.

Skinner-Dorkenoo¹,

Sarmal²,

Andre³

et al. 2021

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The consequences of racial microaggressions are most often discussed at an interpersonal level. In this review, we contend that microaggressions play an important role in maintaining systems of racial oppression beyond the interpersonal context. Specifically, we illustrate how microaggressions establish White superiority in the U.S. by othering people of color (e.g., treating people of color as if they are not true citizens) and communicating that they are inferior (e.g., environmental exclusions and attacks, treating people of color as second-class citizens). We also present evidence that microaggressions play a role in protecting and reinforcing systemic racism. By obscuring systemic racism (e.g., false colorblindness, denial of individual racism) and promoting ideas that maintain existing systemic inequalities (e.g., the myth of meritocracy, reverse racism hostility), microaggressions provide cover and support for established systems of oppression. Overall, we find considerable evidence—from both empirical studies and real-world examples—that microaggressions contribute to the maintenance of systems of racial oppressions in the U.S. We conclude with a discussion of how we might begin to challenge this cycle by increasing awareness of systemic racism and the microaggressions that aid in its perpetuation.

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Heritage as hate: racism and sporting traditions

Cited by 13 publications

References 25 publications

Leisure and the racing of national populism

Leisure and the racing of national populism

How Microaggressions Reinforce and Perpetuate Systemic Racism in the United States

How Microaggressions Reinforce and Perpetuate Systemic Racism in the U.S.

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