‘Race’ talk! Tensions and contradictions in sport and PE

Hylton, Kevin

doi:10.1080/17408989.2015.1043253

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“…In PE specifically, its strong links to sport means that it is a subject saturated by relations of race, gender and class (e.g., Evans and Davies, 2006;Hylton, 2015;Kirk and Vertinskyj, 2016). The media plays a central role in reproducing creation and maintenance of racial categories through sport (Hylton, 2008): particular bodies have been validated, others denigrated, and the biological racism central to colonial times can be seen to underpin black and minority ethnic (BME) communities' experiences of contemporary sporting practice (Long et al, 2009).…”

Section: Race In Education and Physical Educationmentioning

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‘I just treat them all the same, really’: teachers, whiteness and (anti) racism in physical education

Flintoff

Dowling

2017

Sport, Education and Society

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This paper explores physical educators' perspectives on race and racism as a first step towards disrupting whiteness and supporting the development of antiracist practice. With close links to sport, a practice centrally implicated in the creation and maintenance of racialised bodies and hierarchies, Physical Education (PE) offers an important context for a study of whiteness and racism in education. Using collective biography we examine physical educators' narrative stories for what they reveal about the operation of whiteness and racism in PE. Teachers draw on narratives from curricula texts which uphold and reinforce notions of the racialised other, thereby reasserting normative, universal white knowledge. Their pedagogy is underpinned by a colour blind approach where race is 'not seen', yet essentialist and cultural discourses of race are nevertheless deployed to position particular racialised and gendered bodies as 'problems' in PE. Engagement with antiracism is limited to professional rhetoric within pedagogical practice.

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Section: Race In Education and Physical Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘I just treat them all the same, really’: teachers, whiteness and (anti) racism in physical education

Flintoff

Dowling

2017

Sport, Education and Society

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“…Archer (2007) (Dowling, Flintoff, and Fitzgerald, 2014). This knowledge is viewed as neutral to race, gender, sexuality and other aspects of social identity, thus reproducing behaviour that demonstrates idealised forms of whiteness in PE and sport rather than illuminating its racialised nature (Hylton, 2015).…”

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“…This phenomenon has thus been attributed to false perceptions of contrasting physical and intellectual capabilities of different racial groups based on misleading, biologically-deterministic 'evidence' (Azzorito and Harrison, 2008;Entine, 2001;Hoberman, 1997;Hylton, 2015;St Louis, 2003. Sport and PE have therefore acted as a useful medium to explore some of the wider impacts of race within education and society more broadly within my teaching practice in HE.…”

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White Privilege, Empathy and Alterity in Higher Education—Teaching About Race and Racism in the Sociology of PE and Sport

Hobson

Whigham

2018

Dismantling Race in Higher Education

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“…Within these pedagogical contexts, domination, hierarchies and power relations influence agency, when, in contrast, other bodies are legitimized and naturalized (lisahunter, 2013) based on the "whiteness" and "race logic" discourse. Kevin Hylton (2015) in his paper discussing 'race talk', he maintained that individuals and institutions in sport and PE are neither neutral nor unbiased… 'the results of these acts and processes have differential impacts upon people in sport that vary as 'race' intersects with class, gender, and other identifiers of oppression' (p. 512). PE teachers have a responsibility for providing substantial amounts of healthenhancing physical activity during class time, especially in those activities that will lead to student physical fitness and motor skill development, which will serve them well into the future (McKenzie & Lounsbery, 2013).…”

Section: Multiple Intersecting Identities and The Whiteness Discoursementioning

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Problematizing Social Justice in Health Pedagogy and Youth Sport: Intersectionality of Race, Ethnicity, and Class

Dagkas

2016

Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport

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Social justice education recognizes the discrepancies in opportunities, among disadvantaged groups in society. The purpose of the papers in this SpecialIssue for Social Justice is to (a) provide a critical reflection on issues of social justice within health pedagogy and youth sport of Black and Ethnic Minority (BME) young people, (b) provide a framework for the importance of intersectionality research (mainly intersection of social class, race and ethnicity) in youth sport and health pedagogy for social justice and (c) contextualize the complex intersection and interplay of social issues (i.e. race, ethnicity, social classes) and their influence in shaping physical culture amongst young people with BME background. The paper argues that there are several social identities in any given pedagogical terrain and these need to be heard and legitimized to avoid neglect and "othering". This paper suggests that resurgence of interest in theoretical frameworks such as Intersectionality can provide an effective platform to legitimize "non-normative bodies" (diverse bodies) in health pedagogy and Physical Education (PE) and Sport by voicing positionalities on agency and practice.

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‘Race’ talk! Tensions and contradictions in sport and PE

Cited by 46 publications

References 38 publications

‘I just treat them all the same, really’: teachers, whiteness and (anti) racism in physical education

‘I just treat them all the same, really’: teachers, whiteness and (anti) racism in physical education

White Privilege, Empathy and Alterity in Higher Education—Teaching About Race and Racism in the Sociology of PE and Sport

Problematizing Social Justice in Health Pedagogy and Youth Sport: Intersectionality of Race, Ethnicity, and Class

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