Jan 19 2023 65 mins
We are back, and Miguel is happy to welcome a friend of the show, Dr. Munene Mwaniki, to the podcast.
Dr. Munene Mwaniki is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Western Carolina University and is the author of the book, The Black Migrant Athlete: Media, Race, and the Diaspora in Sports (University of Nebraska Press, 2017).
In this episode, Miguel and Munene discuss the history of Black Migrant Athlete Labor in Europe and the US, including the concepts of the model minority and othering of Black Migrant Athletes such as Christian Okoye (NFL), Mario Balotelli (Footballer), Dikembe Mutombo and Hakeem Olajuwon (NBA), and others in the Western sports media. Additionally, Miguel asked Munene about the narratives created around these Black Migrant Athletes and how they help continue the capitalist neoliberal order in the West.
Lastly, Miguel and Munene think about what a Sociology of Sport through a Marxist-Leninist lens looks like and discuss how Western liberalism keeps an ML analysis of sport from the masses.
Links:
The Ogwumike Sisters Offer a Way to Think Differently About the Black Athlete by Dr. Munene Mwaniki and Manuel Zenquis (Engaging Sports)
Munene F Mwaniki, The Black Migrant Athlete (YouTube Video)
The burden of playing while Black and Irish by Oluwashina Okeleji (NewFrame.com)
Mario Balotelli suffers racist abuse, threatens walk-off after booting ball into crowd in Brescia defeat at Verona (ESPN)
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