Futebol mulato: racial constructs in Brazilian football

American football and national pride: Racial differences.

Over the past four decades, scholars from diverse disciplines have consistently emphasized the role of sport in expressing, reflecting, or producing national sentiments (Abell et al., 2007; Bairner, 2001; Ehn, 1989; Gibbons, 2011; MacClancy, 1996; Marks, 1998; Solis, 1996; Sorek, 2007; Tuastad, 1997; van Hilvoorde et al., 2010). Both sport and national identity, however, are “contested racial t...

Racial Ambiguity among the Brazilian Population

Measuring Racial Prejudice in a Multiracial World: New Methods and New Constructs

This chapter argues for the use of new methods to assess racial prejudice because existing methods only provide a piecemeal understanding of the phenomenon, leading to an under-assessment of key constructs (e.g., ingroup favoritism, outgroup derogation) and provide no precision to assess new constructs, such as generalized outgroup derogation (negativity directed at all outgroups equally) and s...

Disciplinary Sanctions in English Premiership Football: Is There a Racial Dimension?

This paper assesses the evidence for racial differences in the accumulation of disciplinary sanctions in professional football using data drawn from five recent seasons of the English Premiership. A relatively rich data source was used to construct a unique dataset for this study. The data have the significant advantage of being able to identify, inter alia, the player’s age, club, field positi...

Aerobic evaluation in soccer Avaliação aeróbia no futebol

licence: Creative Commom Abstract – Physical assessments are fundamental for the control and improvement of the performance of soccer players. In this respect, field and laboratory tests are commonly used to evaluate physical fitness in this sports modality. However, it is important to choose the appropriate protocol according to the objectives of the assessment. Thus, the aim of the present st...