Munene Franjo Mwaniki

The Black Migrant Athlete

Media, Race, and the Diaspora in Sports

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Produktbeschreibung

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9780803288478
• ISBN-10: 0803288476
• Artikelnr.: 48379544

Autorenporträt

Munene Franjo Mwaniki is an assistant professor of sociology at Western Carolina University.   

Inhaltsangabe

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