Whiteness, Canadian university athletic administration, and anti-racism leadership: ‘A bunch of white haired, white dudes in the back rooms’

IF 8 2区 医学 Q1 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM
Braeden McKenzie, Janelle Joseph, Sabrina Razack
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ABSTRACTThis paper theorises ‘whiteness’ in relation to systems of power, leadership, and oppression within post-secondary sport athletic departments in Ontario, Canada. Using results from the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) Anti-Racism Project, we position whiteness as a significant and unavoidable obstacle to productive anti-racism leadership and labour within university athletics. While many Canadian university athletic departments have publicly embraced a call to anti-racism practice and policy, progress too-often remains contingent on largely white, male, and older leadership groups making decisions surrounding instances of racism that they often have no history personally experiencing, witnessing, or most concerningly, handling professionally. Examples from the project include administrators who often have more than 20-years-experience referencing ‘blindness’, naiveté, or not knowing where to look as reasons for viewing racism as a cursory or circumscribed problem, or as an issue not on the same scale as other athletic departments have attempted to tackle (e.g. sexual violence and concussion). We argue that these denials of the existence of racism work to reproduce the dominant structures of power, destabilise efforts for education or policy initiatives and maintain the oppression, racial hierarchies and marginalisation of racialised people within collegiate athletics.KEYWORDS: anti-racismhigher educationuniversity sportstaff Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by Ontario University Athletics.Notes on contributorsBraeden McKenzieBraeden McKenzie is a PhD Candidate and Course Instructor working in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Toronto and a Research Assistant in the Indigeneity, Diaspora, Equity and Anti-racism in Sport (IDEAS) Research Lab.Janelle JosephJanelle Joseph is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Toronto and the founder of the IDEAS Research Lab.Sabrina RazackSabrina Razack is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physcial Education at the University of Toronto.
白人,加拿大大学体育管理和反种族主义领导:“一群白头发的白人在后面的房间里。”
摘要本文对加拿大安大略省高等院校体育部门的权力、领导和压迫制度中的“白人”进行了理论分析。利用安大略省大学田径运动(OUA)反种族主义项目的结果,我们将白人定位为大学田径运动中富有成效的反种族主义领导和劳动的重大且不可避免的障碍。虽然许多加拿大大学的体育部门公开呼吁采取反种族主义的做法和政策,但进展往往取决于主要由白人、男性和年长的领导团体围绕种族主义事件做出决定,而这些事件往往是他们没有亲身经历、目睹过的,或者最重要的是,他们没有专业处理过。来自该项目的例子包括那些通常有超过20年经验的管理人员,他们将“盲目”、天真或不知道从哪里看作为将种族主义视为粗略或有限问题的理由,或者视为与其他体育部门试图解决的问题(例如性暴力和脑震荡)不一样的问题。我们认为,这些否认种族主义存在的行为再现了权力的主导结构,破坏了教育或政策举措的稳定,并在大学体育运动中维持了种族化人群的压迫、种族等级和边缘化。关键词:反种族主义高等教育大学体育工作人员披露声明作者未报告潜在的利益冲突。本研究得到了安大略大学体育协会的支持。作者简介:布雷登·麦肯齐布雷登·麦肯齐是多伦多大学运动与体育学院的博士候选人和课程讲师,也是体育运动中的土著、散居、公平和反种族主义研究实验室的研究助理。Janelle JosephJanelle Joseph是多伦多大学运动机能学和体育学院的助理教授,也是IDEAS研究实验室的创始人。Sabrina Razack是多伦多大学运动机能学和体育教育学院的助理教授。
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