What is it about?
Shared stories of racism are discussed to see how humour is used as a form of coping with, and resistance to, racism in sport.
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Why is it important?
The work moves away from work on racist joke telling and banter by perpetrators of racism to consider the strategic use of humour by those traditionally the targets of racism. This is an under-researched topic that uses Critical Race Theory and humour studies to examine these issues,
Perspectives
This work had a long gestation period as a result of me drawing on many years of playing sport and hearing Black players sharing their experiences over the years of playing sport. I was really interested in the tropes and techniques used in the stories of those affected by racism that communicated traumatic events while lessening their impact and emphasising the learningfor their audience.
Kevin Hylton
Leeds Beckett University
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This page is a summary of: I'm not joking! The strategic use of humour in stories of racism, Ethnicities, November 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1468796817743998.
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