So What Has Changed (and What Has to Change)?

Abstract

Twenty years ago, Jarvie (1991: 4) insisted that research on ‘race’ and sport had paid insufficient attention to power relations and ‘the role of sport in either consolidating or challenging the racist values of various groups’. At that time he was working with a literature on ‘race’ and sport that was still sparse. The literature has certainly grown in the intervening years, and this collection makes a further contribution, but it still represents an under-researched and under-theorised area of study (Long et al., 2009). This pattern of growing, but less than whole-hearted, interest is reflected in the realms of sports policy and practice.