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This study will examine sports role in the facilitation of athlete activism against racism across the Black diaspora (North America, UK, Western Europe) amongst the backdrop of BLM from a decolonial and intersectional perspective.
The study has three specific areas of focus. Firstly, the study will offer a socio-historical and critical examination of each of the four waves of Black athlete activism from the early 1900s to the present day. Secondly, the study will examine the shape, scope, and effectiveness of fourth wave (recent) activism amongst Black athletes through an analysis of art, traditional and social media technologies, film, and music to challenge racial injustice. Thirdly, the study will illuminate the lived experiences of elite level Black women and men athlete activists through qualitative interviews.
Read through an intersectional analysis of how Black women and men negotiate issues of race and gender in sport/activism in similar and different ways. An emphasis will be placed on theoretical and methodological interventions from a decolonial and Black studies perspectives. Thus, developing an African centred approach to understandings of athlete activism against racial inequality, which will provide new arguments and interpretations of athlete activism particularly through the voices of Black women.
The project will be supervised by Dr Nik Dickerson and Dr Steven Bradbury who have significant teaching, research and supervisory expertise in the sociology of sports and sports management, with particular respect to ‘race’, masculinity, and issues of racism within sport media and sport coaching.
The project will take place at the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University (Loughborough Campus) which has been ranked 1st in the world for Sport-related Subjects (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021).
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