THE DISCOURSE OF WHITE SUPREMACY AND SPORT: A STUDY FROM INTERNET TEXTS AND COMMENTS

Authors

  • Marcio Antonio Tralci Filho Instituto de Psicologia da Universidade de São Paulo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0874-0375
  • Alessandro de Oliveira dos Santos Instituto de Psicologia da Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22456/1982-8918.64497

Keywords:

Racism. Sports. Internet

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the persistence and the reproduction of white supremacy from comments sections on the internet about sport. We selected comments from five texts published between 2009 and 2016 about Tennis, elected due being historically a sport with hegemony of white athletes, and more specifically, due the performance of Serena Williams. As a result, we found that white supremacy is present in sports, even when there are no direct references to race-ethnicity, on delegitimizing accusations and on the gaze over white and black bodies and performances . Moreover, we considered that the sport is also a place of discursive production about white supremacy, since the emphasis on the biological and on cultural essentialisms encourages interpretations on the presence/absence and performance of white and black athletes which revisits political myths constructed by the scientific racism of the nineteenth century.

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Author Biographies

Marcio Antonio Tralci Filho, Instituto de Psicologia da Universidade de São Paulo

Bacharel, Licenciado e Mestre em Educação Física pela Escola de Educação Física e Esporte da Universidade de São Paulo e estudante de Doutorado em Psicologia Social no Instituto de Psicologia da Universidade de São Paulo.

Alessandro de Oliveira dos Santos, Instituto de Psicologia da Universidade de São Paulo

Professor do Departamento de Psicologia Social e do Trabalho do Instituto de Psicologia da Universidade de São Paulo onde é responsável pela área de Intercultura e Raça-Etnia.

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Published

2017-03-29

How to Cite

TRALCI FILHO, M. A.; SANTOS, A. de O. dos. THE DISCOURSE OF WHITE SUPREMACY AND SPORT: A STUDY FROM INTERNET TEXTS AND COMMENTS. Movimento, [S. l.], v. 23, n. 1, p. 229–248, 2017. DOI: 10.22456/1982-8918.64497. Disponível em: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/Movimento/article/view/64497. Acesso em: 10 may. 2025.

Issue

v. 23, n. 1, jan./mar. 2017

Section

Original Articles

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