Abstract
While Chapter 3 explored overt expressions of racism at all levels in Swedish football, this chapter will instead look at institutionalized discrimination, as well as other more symbolic forms of racism, in the elite game. These types of racism are less readily discernable, and as a result, they often go unrecognized, but this does not mean that they do not exist. Part of the trouble stems from the fact that the Swedish conception of racism remains too narrowly defined, though in football’s case, this problem is also attributable to Swedish football elites’ continued reluctance to address patterns of deep-rooted structural racism in the sport.
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Scott, CG. (2015). Antiracism and Its Limitations in Swedish Football. In: African Footballers in Sweden. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137535092_4
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