Marking the boundaries of the ‘normal’ in televised sports: the play-by-play of race...

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Beteiligte: Bruce, Toni
In: Media, Culture & Society, 26, 2004, 6, S. 861-879
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SAGE Publications
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Umfang: 861-879
ISSN: 0163-4437
1460-3675
DOI: 10.1177/0163443704047030
veröffentlicht in: Media, Culture & Society
Sprache: Englisch
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Kollektion: SAGE Publications (CrossRef)
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<jats:p> Despite an emerging body of research on race and representation in televised sport, little is known about commentator practices and understandings, particularly in relation to the construction of racial difference. Based on interviews and analysis of commentary, the results of this study point to a complex interaction between embedded racist ideologies and media practices specific to live basketball coverage. Taken together, and despite the conscious intentions of commentators, these interactions appear to contribute to an ongoing ‘Othering’ of African Americans and men of color and the normalization of dominant white cultural understandings of difference. </jats:p>