SOC 525 Chapter Notes - Chapter Articles: Canadian Identity, Antifeminism, Black Body
21 Nov 2016
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Media and images of inequality readings, week thirteen. Running clean: ben johnson and the unmaking of canada. Argue that in sports the body of ben johnson is a place where practices of placing racialized tropes of cleanliness and uncleanliness to maintain multiculturalism achieve meanings in the national imaginary. Linking of his black body to steroid use, crime and uncleanliness; these practices within sports stem from the negative treatment of black bodies in nation-state practices and political economy. Latest manifestation of intense anti-immigrant racism emerges in the late 80s in canada and corresponds to an economic crisis due to globalization, economic dislocation due to the free trade agreement, and increased neo-liberal attempts to attack the deficit. Through the 1990s reform party policy linked immigrants with economic impoverishment of the nation; within these contexts emerges the criminalization of black masculinity as a response to a natural crisis. Bailey is shown as an eraser to johnson, erasing the tarnished past of canadian sprinting.
