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In The Ring

2023/10/16
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Human Resources
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Moya Lothian-McLean: 我最近在国外旅行时，人们总是将我的运动能力归因于我的黑人血统，这让我感到困惑和不适。从小到大，我的运动能力总是被归因于我牙买加的血统，而我的母亲，一个英国白人，也同样热爱运动。这种现象让我觉得我的运动能力被种族化了，这与过去将超人的力量和耐力归因于黑人的观念相呼应。我希望通过这个节目探讨种族与运动能力之间的真实联系，以及这种联系背后的历史和社会因素。 Natalie Zarchek: 从历史角度来看，奴隶制时期黑人在体育运动中的参与，特别是赛马和拳击，与当时社会对黑人身体的刻板印象密切相关。在赛马中，黑人骑师通常是被奴役的，他们的技能被视为一种工具，而非个人成就。在拳击中，黑人拳击手虽然有机会赢得自由和财富，但他们的成功往往被归因于他们的身体优势，而非智力和策略。这些历史背景对我们理解今天种族与运动能力之间的关系至关重要。此外，即使在废奴之后，黑人在体育领域的参与仍然受到种族歧视和社会偏见的影响，例如在游泳等需要专门设施的运动中，黑人往往缺乏机会。

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The author recounts instances where strangers were fixated on her muscular arms, attributing her strength to her Black heritage. This experience leads her to reflect on how racial stereotypes about Black people's physical capabilities influence perceptions of athleticism.
  • Racial stereotypes about Black people's physical capabilities
  • Attribution of athleticism solely based on race

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I love fitness. I love sports. I go to the gym, I walk, I run, I cycle. In my youth, I played team games. And everyone said I was good at sports because of my heritage. My Jamaican ancestry. As a child, this confused me - my white British mother was as sporty as my father, representing her county at tennis in her teen years. But my sporting ability - which is enthusiastic rather than particularly gifted - is always attributed to the half of me that’s Black. It feels - and I’ll just say it - racialised, an echo of the ideas that saw things like superhuman strength and endurance attributed to Black people.

Featuring senior lecturer in American Studies at the University of Manchester, Natalie Zacek)

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