“Riverboat Ron”: A Critical Reading of Ron Rivera, American Brownness & Latino Masculinities in the NFL

IF 2.5 3区教育学 Q2 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM

Journal of Sport & Social Issues Pub Date : 2022-05-18 DOI:10.1177/01937235221099149

Jorge E. Moraga

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Ron Rivera, after eight and a half years as the only Latino Head Coach employed by the NFL, was fired in 2019 by Carolina Panthers’ new ownership. Soon after, Rivera was hired as the new Head Coach of the then-Washington Reds*ins. Empowered to not only coach the team, he has been tasked to shake up the organization's cultural, gendered, and racialized leadership-status-quo. In doing so Coach Rivera threads new ground across the ever evolving color line in U.S. sports, particularly “the brown color line.” This essay explores the life, career, and ongoing-regionally based celebrity stardom of Ronald Eugene Rivera. I argue that Ron Rivera charts pathways forward amidst a U.S. socio-cultural-political climate rooted in anti-Native, anti-Black, anti-immigrant sentiment and a sporting industry embezzled in neoliberal racial politics. The essay theorizes “brownness” in sport from a “Latino masculinity” perspective to situate Rivera's struggles for (in)/(hyper)visibility and the complexed realities of the ongoing gendered color line in U.S. sport amid social pressure and protests for transformation and change.

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“Riverboat Ron”：对Ron Rivera、美国布朗和美国橄榄球联盟拉丁裔男子气概的批判性解读

罗恩·里维拉(Ron Rivera)在担任NFL唯一的拉丁裔主教练8年半之后，于2019年被卡罗莱纳黑豹队的新东家解雇。不久之后，里维拉被聘为当时的华盛顿红人队的新任主教练。他不仅被授权指导团队，还被赋予了改变组织文化、性别和种族化领导现状的任务。通过这样做，里维拉教练打破了美国体育中不断变化的肤色界限，尤其是“棕色界限”，开辟了新的领域。这篇文章探讨了罗纳德·尤金·里维拉的生活、事业和正在进行的区域性名人明星。我认为，罗恩·里维拉在美国社会文化政治气候中描绘了前进的道路，这种气候植根于反土著、反黑人、反移民的情绪，以及新自由主义种族政治中挪用的体育产业。这篇文章从“拉丁裔男子气概”的角度对体育中的“棕色”进行了理论化，将里维拉为(in)/(hyper)可见性和美国体育中正在进行的性别肤色线的复杂现实的斗争置于社会压力和对转型和变革的抗议中。

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期刊介绍： Journal of Sport & Social Issues is an indispensable resource that brings together the latest research, discussion, and analysis on contemporary sport issues such as race, media, gender, economics, drugs, recruiting, injuries, and youth sports. Using an international, interdisciplinary perspective, Journal of Sport & Social Issues examines today"s most pressing and far-reaching questions about sport, including: World Cup soccer, gay experience and sport, social issues in sport management, youth sports, sports subcultures. Always provocative, Journal of Sports and Social Issues presents a lively public discussion of the impact of sport on social issues from many perspectives.