Self-directed racialized humor as in-group marker among migrant players in a professional football team: “Dude, Just Draw the Racist Card!”
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Self-directed racialized humor as in-group marker among migrant players in a professional football team : “Dude, Just Draw the Racist Card!”. / Wolfers-Pommerenke, Solvejg.
Football and Discrimination: Antisemitism and Beyond. ed. / Pavel Brunssen; Stefanie Schüler-Springorum. 1. ed. London : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2021. p. 97-110.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Self-directed racialized humor as in-group marker among migrant players in a professional football team
T2 - “Dude, Just Draw the Racist Card!”
AU - Wolfers-Pommerenke, Solvejg
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Although racism in football has received considerable attention from researchers in different disciplines, this important issue remains largely overlooked from a discourse analytical perspective. This is particularly surprising since discourse analysis provides some concrete tools and practices to identify racism and racial stereotypes in action – particularly when disguised as humor. This chapter raises questions about the understanding of self-directed racialized humor by migrant players in a professional football team from Germany. Drawing on over 56 hours of audio-recorded interactions among the players in the locker room, on the substitutes’ bench, and on the sideline before, during, and after football matches and trainings, as well as over 80 hours of observations, and interviews with 13 players, I analyze and discuss how within this specific context team members use racialized humor as an in-group marker that talks boundaries into being. In particular, I am interested in the ways in which migrant players mobilize racialized discourses through self-directed humor for the negotiation of interpersonal relations and whether this constitutes racism (or not).
AB - Although racism in football has received considerable attention from researchers in different disciplines, this important issue remains largely overlooked from a discourse analytical perspective. This is particularly surprising since discourse analysis provides some concrete tools and practices to identify racism and racial stereotypes in action – particularly when disguised as humor. This chapter raises questions about the understanding of self-directed racialized humor by migrant players in a professional football team from Germany. Drawing on over 56 hours of audio-recorded interactions among the players in the locker room, on the substitutes’ bench, and on the sideline before, during, and after football matches and trainings, as well as over 80 hours of observations, and interviews with 13 players, I analyze and discuss how within this specific context team members use racialized humor as an in-group marker that talks boundaries into being. In particular, I am interested in the ways in which migrant players mobilize racialized discourses through self-directed humor for the negotiation of interpersonal relations and whether this constitutes racism (or not).
KW - Language Studies
KW - Gender and Diversity
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85112193417&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4324/9780429341014
DO - 10.4324/9780429341014
M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies
SN - 9780367356590
SN - 978 - 0 -367-75122
SP - 97
EP - 110
BT - Football and Discrimination
A2 - Brunssen, Pavel
A2 - Schüler-Springorum, Stefanie
PB - Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
CY - London
ER -