When Adam met Rio: conversations on racism, anti-racism and multiculturalism in the Australian Football League and English Premier League
This article employs a 2013 televised dialogue on racism between two male, minority ethnic, global football stars – Adam Goodes of the Australian Rules code and Rio Ferdinand, an English Premier League player – for a timely, comparative and cross-cultural analysis of issues around race, ethnicity, I...
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| description | This article employs a 2013 televised dialogue on racism between two male, minority ethnic, global football stars – Adam Goodes of the Australian Rules code and Rio Ferdinand, an English Premier League player – for a timely, comparative and cross-cultural analysis of issues around race, ethnicity, Indigeneity, and identity, and dominant approaches to anti-racism and multiculturalism within these codes. Prior to the television interview, the Indigenous Goodes had been racially vilified by a 13-year-old female spectator during a match, and subsequently likened to King Kong by Collingwood president, Eddie McGuire. After an opponent racially slurred his brother during a 2011 match, Ferdinand initiated a protest, followed by many fellow professionals, against the perceived inaction to racism from football authorities by refusing to wear T-shirts promoting the work of anti-racist organization, Kick It Out. The article argues that, despite their differences, dialogue between the two football codes holds the potential for progressive anti-racist policy-making. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-390562017-09-13T14:19:38Z When Adam met Rio: conversations on racism, anti-racism and multiculturalism in the Australian Football League and English Premier League Burdsey, D. Gorman, Sean This article employs a 2013 televised dialogue on racism between two male, minority ethnic, global football stars – Adam Goodes of the Australian Rules code and Rio Ferdinand, an English Premier League player – for a timely, comparative and cross-cultural analysis of issues around race, ethnicity, Indigeneity, and identity, and dominant approaches to anti-racism and multiculturalism within these codes. Prior to the television interview, the Indigenous Goodes had been racially vilified by a 13-year-old female spectator during a match, and subsequently likened to King Kong by Collingwood president, Eddie McGuire. After an opponent racially slurred his brother during a 2011 match, Ferdinand initiated a protest, followed by many fellow professionals, against the perceived inaction to racism from football authorities by refusing to wear T-shirts promoting the work of anti-racist organization, Kick It Out. The article argues that, despite their differences, dialogue between the two football codes holds the potential for progressive anti-racist policy-making. 2015 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/39056 10.1080/17430437.2014.976007 restricted |
| spellingShingle | Burdsey, D. Gorman, Sean When Adam met Rio: conversations on racism, anti-racism and multiculturalism in the Australian Football League and English Premier League |
| title | When Adam met Rio: conversations on racism, anti-racism and multiculturalism in the Australian Football League and English Premier League |
| title_full | When Adam met Rio: conversations on racism, anti-racism and multiculturalism in the Australian Football League and English Premier League |
| title_fullStr | When Adam met Rio: conversations on racism, anti-racism and multiculturalism in the Australian Football League and English Premier League |
| title_full_unstemmed | When Adam met Rio: conversations on racism, anti-racism and multiculturalism in the Australian Football League and English Premier League |
| title_short | When Adam met Rio: conversations on racism, anti-racism and multiculturalism in the Australian Football League and English Premier League |
| title_sort | when adam met rio: conversations on racism, anti-racism and multiculturalism in the australian football league and english premier league |
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