Browsing Tag Racism
-
Football
Imagining Romelu Lukaku: The black athlete as invented by white people
As a society, we have certain imaginations of the black body. It is perpetually big, strong, dominant. We have expectations of how it will move, walk, gesture and ...
-
Sport 1
How Waleed Aly tried to rope-a-dope Muhammad Ali and failed
When we write about people, we talk about the times that shaped them and the experiences they’ve had. How else do we begin to understand these complex figures — especially ...
-
Australian Rules 6
Cummeragunja: The Aboriginal football team that opened the eyes of White Australia
In the 1930s, Sir Doug Nicholls was one of only two Indigenous player plying his trade in top flight football in Melbourne. But he did not come out ...
-
Pop Culture 1
Zwarte Piet: Coming Face to Blackface with a problematic Dutch tradition
Once a year, my parents would take my brother and I to Adelaide to visit our relatives. Often we would stay at my father’s parents. Early in the ...
-
Australian Rules
Blacks and “Blacked-Up Whites” v Whites: The story of the strangest game of footy ever played
On Monday, June 11, 1900, Melbourne’s The Argus newspaper reported that a charity match was “played between 20 representatives of the Healesville Aboriginal Station and a team selected ...
-
Australian Rules
Adam Goodes: (Black) Pride and (White) Prejudice
And so Adam Goodes will make his return to the Swans in their game against Geelong this weekend. Football might return to being about the result. Goodes might ...
-
Football
10 Anti-Racist Songs for the A-League’s #EraseRacism Round
This weekend, Round 22 of the Hyundai A-League will be played. It has also been named the ‘Erase Racism Round’. According to the media release from All Together ...
Subscribe & Follow
