'Race' and Sport: Critical Race Theory

Challenging dominant orthodoxies and providing an accessible, cohesive framework for debates which are often shifted to the periphery of undergraduate teaching because of their sensitivity, this book opens Critical Race Theory to a wide readership of students and researchers, offering a genuinely cutting edge review of this field. Includes: analysis of the tensions inherent in popular key terms in 'race' theory the question of Whiteness and the perpetuation of a hegemony of white privilege in sport the power of the media in the construction of racialized identities challenge to the assumptions underpinning popular approaches to antiracism. Critical Race Theory in Sport breaks down concepts including 'race', ethnicity, social Darwinism, social constructionism, racialisation, universalism, genetics and scientific racism, identity and citizenship, social capital, equality. Each of these concepts presents a challenge for academics, policy makers and practitioners in the way they approach the development of their ideas, policies and practical interventions.Kevin Hylton is the author of ''Race' and Sport: Critical Race Theory', published 2008 under ISBN 9780415436557 and ISBN 0415436559.