’Race’, Youth Sport, Physical Activity and Health

Symeon Dagkas is Professor of Sport, Physical Activity and Society and Dean of the Faculty of Sport, Health and Applied Sciences at St Mary's University, Twickenham, London. His work is concentrated on examining intersections of race; class, ethnicity and culture amongst young people with migrant and ethnic minority background and its impact on their agency and practice towards sport, physical activity, health and PE.

'Race', Youth Sport, Physical Activity and Health provides a resource that addresses 'race' and racism in an accessible way by contextualizing theory with practical evidence-based examples drawn from global geographical and cultural settings.

Introduction: The Project, 1. 'Race', Racism and Race Logic, 2. Social Justice and Intersectionality in Sport, Physical Activity and Health Pedagogy: Creating Connections, 3. Why is Our PE Teacher Education Curriculum White? A Collaborative Self-Study of Teaching About 'Race' in PETE Programmes, 4. Stories of Difference and Sameness: South Asian, Muslim Young Women Talk Physical Education, 5. Athleticising Young Black Lives: Confusing Education with Commerce in High School Sports, 6. "Playing the Game" and "Finding My Way": Minority Ethnic Female PE Teachers' Counter-Stories, 7. Race Logic in American College Sports: Athletic Exploitation, Privilege and Institutional Resentment, 8. Challenging the Stereotypical Construction of Black Physical Superiority and Intellectual Inferiority in Sport, 9. Le Parkour, Freerunning and Young White Men: Identities, Resistances and Digital Representations, 10. Sport and the Normalisation of Australian Aboriginal Peoples, 11. British Asians, Racial Framing and Football Exclusion, 12. Physicality and Health Inequalities in British Pakistani Muslim Women: Analysis of a Participatory Theatre-Based Play , 13. Decolonising Health in Education: Considering Indigenous Knowledge in Policy Documents, 14. The "Health Gap" From a Social Justice Perspective: Critical Race Theory, Post-Colonialism, and Post-Feminism