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Love NBA, hate BLM : racism in China’s sports fandom
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Peng, Yuzhu (Altman), Kuang, Xianwen and Hou, Jenny Zhengye (2022) Love NBA, hate BLM : racism in China’s sports fandom. International Journal of Communication, 16 . pp. 3133-3153. ISSN 1932-8036.
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Official URL: https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/18993
Abstract
This article aims to explore how racism plays out in China’s sports fandom in the wake of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement sweeping across the globe. To this end, we conducted a case study of basketball fans’ postings on the most popular Chinese-language sports fandom platform, Hupu. The research discovered that the often-negative assessments of the BLM movement posted on Hupu were largely informed by racism deeply held in traditional Chinese thinking, which provided the grounding for Chinese sports fans to appropriate racial discourses to assess progressive equal-rights politics in Euro-American societies. The trajectory of such a discursive practice was twofold, enabling these sports fans to rationalize their political views pertaining to both international and domestic arenas. The research findings urge scholarly attention to the dynamic interplay between regional popular cultures and global equal-rights politics in the digital age in China and beyond.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GV Recreation Leisure H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Black lives matter movement , Sports spectators -- China -- Social conditions, Racism in sports -- China, Racism against Black people -- China, Racism in mass media -- China, Digital media -- Social aspects -- China, Mass media and race relations -- China, Content analysis (Communication) | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | International Journal of Communication | ||||||
| Publisher: | University of Southern California | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1932-8036 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 2022 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 16 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 3133-3153 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
| Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 2022 (Altman Yuzhu Peng, Xianwen Kuang, and Jenny Zhengye Hou) | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 15 June 2022 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 16 June 2022 | ||||||
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