What Is Blackness to Sport Management? Manifestations of Anti-Blackness in the Field

This article is written in response to the collective “reckoning” with anti-Black violence in 2020. We share our perspective in solidarity with the long traditions, and contemporary, everyday actions of survival and resistance from millions of unnamed members of Black, Indigenous, and other racializ...

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Published in:Journal of sport management 2022-05, Vol.36 (3), p.215-227
Main Authors: Singer, John N., Agyemang, Kwame J.A., Chen, Chen, Walker, Nefertiti A., Melton, E. Nicole
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:This article is written in response to the collective “reckoning” with anti-Black violence in 2020. We share our perspective in solidarity with the long traditions, and contemporary, everyday actions of survival and resistance from millions of unnamed members of Black, Indigenous, and other racialized communities across the world. This article calls in the field of sport management, while calling attention to ways anti-Blackness has permeated the academy. Through observations, reflections, and interrogation of literature in the field, we illustrate the invisibility/marginality/erasure of Blackness in this body of knowledge and discuss missed opportunities for sport management. With the hope that the field will transform into a more inclusive, equitable, and just intellectual space, representative of Black, Indigenous, and other racialized voices, perspectives, experiences, and cultures, and accountable to rectifying the injustices inflicted upon Black and other racialized bodies, we offer calls to action for everyone in the field to consider.
ISSN:0888-4773
1543-270X
DOI:10.1123/jsm.2021-0232