The Blindside Flick: Race and Rugby League
The issue of race was virtually beyond the touchline in Australian rugby league before the 1960s. It was a white man’s game. Institutionalised racism meant that few Aboriginal men played rugby league at the highest professional level. It is now presumed that race and racism has no place in a game wh...
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| description | The issue of race was virtually beyond the touchline in Australian rugby league before the 1960s. It was a white man’s game. Institutionalised racism meant that few Aboriginal men played rugby league at the highest professional level. It is now presumed that race and racism has no place in a game where these questions have been historically ‘out of bounds’. The dearth of critical writing in rugby league history indicates that racism in the sport has been subject to a form of social blindness and deemed unworthy of study. Rugby league’s white exclusionist past and the denial of racism in the present era indicate habits of mind which may be described in league argot as the ‘blindside flick’. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c67da8f9dfd8414b8a24ed8369083cad2022-12-21T18:03:49ZengUTS ePRESSCosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal1837-53912010-08-012210.5130/ccs.v2i2.14061076The Blindside Flick: Race and Rugby LeagueDrew Cottle0Angela Keys1University of Western SydneyCharles Sturt UniversityThe issue of race was virtually beyond the touchline in Australian rugby league before the 1960s. It was a white man’s game. Institutionalised racism meant that few Aboriginal men played rugby league at the highest professional level. It is now presumed that race and racism has no place in a game where these questions have been historically ‘out of bounds’. The dearth of critical writing in rugby league history indicates that racism in the sport has been subject to a form of social blindness and deemed unworthy of study. Rugby league’s white exclusionist past and the denial of racism in the present era indicate habits of mind which may be described in league argot as the ‘blindside flick’.https://learning-analytics.info/journals/index.php/mcs/article/view/1406racialised sportexclusionassimilationwhitenessracial inequalities |
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| title | The Blindside Flick: Race and Rugby League |
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| topic | racialised sport exclusion assimilation whiteness racial inequalities |
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