Black Migrant Athlete - Media, Race, and the Diaspora in Sports

Informationen zum Autor Munene Franjo Mwaniki is an assistant professor of sociology at Western Carolina University.    Klappentext Munene Franjo Mwaniki is an assistant professor of sociology at Western Carolina University.¿ ¿ Zusammenfassung Analyses the construction of race in Western societies through a study of the black African migrant athlete. Munene Franjo Mwaniki presents ten black African migrant athletes as a conceptual starting point to interrogate the nuances of white supremacy and of the migrant and immigrant experience with a global perspective. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Black African Immigration to the West 1. Race and Sport: Situating the Black African Athlete 2. Everyday Othering: Boundary Making and Maintenance 3. Model Minorities: Origin Stories, Hard Workers, and Humanitarians 4. “Bad” Blacks: Contingent Acceptance and Essentialized Blackness 5. Immigrant Reception: Nationalism, Identity, Politics, and Resistance 6. The Diasporic Athlete: Blackness and Meaning in the African Diaspora 7. The Sporting Migrant: Antiblack Racism and the Foreign Other Appendix A: Methodology and Data-Gathering Procedures Appendix B: Individuals in the Study Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Munene Mwaniki, Munene Franjo Mwaniki
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9780803288478
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-8847-8
• No. of pages: 270
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 235 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Sports, Media, and Society; Sports, Media, and Society
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Ethnic Studies, SPORTS & RECREATION / Sociology of Sports, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Sports & Recreation, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global)