Surviving leisure time racism: the burden of racial harassment on Britain's black footballers

Understanding Football Hooliganism : A comparison of Six Western European Football Clubs

“…Only as recently as the 1990s other important issues surrounding football have come to receive similar research attention, such as the globalization of football, the relationships between football clubs and their fans, football fan writing and racism (e.g. R. Taylor, 1992;Bromberger, 1993;Haynes, 1995;Merkel and Tokarski, 1996;Holland, 1997;Brown, 1998;Giulianotti, 1999;Brown and Walsh, 2000;Garland and Rowe, 2001;Sandvoss, 2003). But although it is true that other important aspects of football and football culture have long been under-researched, I see no reason why football hooliganism should not be studied as just one of the elements of football culture.…”

I'm not joking! The strategic use of humour in stories of racism

“…?’Lanky's turn to two of Berger's (2013) comic tropes of absurdity and a chase scene masked the grievousness of this emotionally hurtful and potentially dangerous and violent experience; not least because he was caught out while feigning injury, which offered a more obvious comic twist. It also acts as another example of the burden of abuse that Black players have to endure relative to their White counterparts (see Holland, 1997). This coupled with Lanky's distinctive, cheeky regional twang meant that his sociable, almost staccato delivery distracted the audience from the more heinous elements of his story – he was attacked by a racist.…”

“…It also acts as another example of the burden of abuse that Black players have to endure relative to their White counterparts (see Holland, 1997). This coupled with Lanky's distinctive, cheeky regional twang meant that his sociable, almost staccato delivery distracted the audience from the more heinous elements of his story -he was attacked by a racist.…”

A people’s history of leisure studies: a historiography of four traditions of critical leisure studies

“…And with the exception of a direct call for a critical outdoors or critical theory-based outdoor education has not been taken up since, although Brown (2002), Breunig (2005), and others have critiqued the area of study. Again, it is key to note that what was examined or searched was not discussions of gender, race, ethnicity, class, or sexual orientation or other identities, but explicit discourses that centred the 'critical', and the issues of power, politics, domination, hegemony, oppression, a history of discrimination, and resistance that should be pertinent to those identities and their experiences as being subjected to leisure as a construct for dominance (Arai et al, 2015;Carrington, 1998aCarrington, , 1998bChambers & Buzinde, 2015;Henry, 2018;Holland, 1997;I. R. Lamond & Spracklen, 2014;Miller et al, 2015;Trussell & Mair, 2010).…”