

The Center for Race & Ethnicity in Sport (C-RAES) stands in solidarity with the Black Community. Black Lives Matter!
As you will see from our lists of projects, C-RAES is primarily dedicated to engaging in scholarship and meaningful activities for and about the Black community as stakeholders and constituents of sport. We are excavating, centering, and celebrating the socially, culturally, economically, and psychologically empowering properties of race in general, and Blackness in particular. As Zora Neale Hurston stated, “Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.” C-RAES is ‘poking and prying’ with the overall purpose of decentering the disciplinary ‘norms’ of Whiteness, and thus, attacking epistemological racism.
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Announcement: Research Grants Forthcoming. The Center for Race & Ethnicity in Sport will be offering small grants for faculty, staff, and students who are interested in collaborating on research or scholarly endeavors related to race and ethnicity in sport.
‘Lifting the veils and illuminating the shadows’: Furthering the explorations of race and ethnicity in Sport Management. Armstrong, K.L. (2011). Journal of Sport Management (Guest Editor, Special Issue), 25(2), 95-106. This essay provided a general introduction to and foundation for the scholarly explorations of how race and ethnicity impact Sport Management. Briefly discussed are the changing portraits of racial and ethnic demography, the conceptual treatments of race and ethnicity, and the methodological challenges and research imperatives. This essay also offered a brief summary of the trends in research on race and ethnicity in Sport Management, and it provided an integrated overview of the scholarship featured in this Special Issue which (in varied ways) explicate the salience of race and ethnicity to Sport Management practices, and to the experiences of sport employees, athletes, and sport marketing and media consumers.