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Alors que la question de l'héritage colonial de la France se pose avec acuité à notre société, cet ouvrage ouvre une perspective originale en interrogeant l'accueil réservé par les Français de métropole aux sportifs noirs dans une configuration historique marquée par le racisme colonial (1901-1944). Analysant la sensibilité du champ sportif à ce phénomène, il retrace le parcours de champions qui ont inscrit leurs noms dans le marbre de la mémoire collective : Major Taylor, Jack Johnson, Jesse Owens, Battling Siki, Panama Al Brown, Larbi Ben Barek… Il démontre avec force et minutie que non seulement les métropolitains n'instaurent pas de système sportif ségrégué – à l'inverse des colonies ou du monde anglophone – mais qu'ils tendent à manifester un racisme moins virulent, moins prégnant dans ce champ que dans la sphère civile. Il constate, paradoxalement, que le respect – tout relatif ! – des principes affichés (universalisme, réussite au mérite) s'accompagne de la structuration d'un imaginaire raciste qui fige jusqu'à aujourd'hui la figure du champion noir (supérieur physiologiquement, instinctif et brillant, mais aussi indiscipliné, individualiste, inconstant…). Aussi s'efforce-t-il d'en déconstruire les fondements, en particulier le bricolage conceptuel qui prévaut à l'émergence de la croyance en la supériorité de la race noire sur les terrains de sport.

Racism in sports.

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"In Prizefighting and Civilization: A Cultural History of Boxing, Race, and Masculinity in Mexico and Cuba, 1840-1940, historian David C. LaFevor traces the history of pugilism in Mexico and Cuba from its controversial beginnings in the mid-nineteenth century through its exponential rise in popularity during the early twentieth century. A divisive subculture that was both a profitable blood sport and a contentious public spectacle, boxing provides a unique vantage point from which LaFevor examines the deeper historical evolution of national identity, everyday normative concepts of masculinity and race, and an expanding and democratizing public sphere in both Mexico and Cuba, the United States' closest Latin American neighbors. Prizefighting and Civilization explores the processes by which boxing-once considered an outlandish purveyor of low culture-evolved into a nationalized pillar of popular culture, a point of pride that transcends gender, race, and class"--

Racism in sports. --- Mexico --- Cuba --- Social conditions.

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Discrimination in sports --- Ethnic relations --- Minorities --- Racism --- Racism in sports

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In examining race in sport, this book is an essential contribution to debates about sports policy, the role of sport in society, and the globalisation/localisation of sports policies. In particular, it maps out local, national and international responses within sport to racism, and initiatives within sport to tackle racism in and through sport. The unifying concept through the chapters is a political and intellectual commitment to a critically realist position on racism.

Discrimination in sports --- Racism in sports --- Sports --- Social aspects

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With contributions by Prosper Godonoo, Urla Hill, C. Richard King, David J. Leonard, Jack Lule, Murry Nelson, David C. Ogden, Robert W. Reising, and Joel Nathan Rosen Reconstructing Fame: Sport, Race, and Evolving Reputations includes essays on Jackie Robinson, Roberto Clemente, Curt Flood, Paul Robeson, Jim Thorpe, Bill Russell, Tommie Smith, and John Carlos. The essayists in this volume write about twentieth-century athletes whose careers were affected by racism and whose post-career reputations have improved as society's understanding of race changed. Contributors attempt to clarify the sto

Racism in sports --- Athletes --- Public opinion --- History. --- Public opinion.