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John N. SingerCollege of Education and Human Development, Center for Sport Management Research and Education, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA

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Kwame J.A. AgyemangSport Management Program, D epartment of Human Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

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Chen ChenNeag School of Education, Educational Leadership, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA

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Nefertiti A. WalkerLaboratory for Inclusion and Diversity in Sport, Mark H. McCormack Department of Sport Management, Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA

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E. Nicole MeltonOffice of Equity and Inclusion (OEI), Mark H. McCormack Department of Sport Management, Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA

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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1123/jsm.2021-0232
Keywords:
diversity; higher education; race and racism; settler colonialism; systemic whiteness
First Published Online:
04 Apr 2022
In Print:
Volume 36: Issue 3
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215–227
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This article is written in response to the collective “reckoning” with anti-Black violence in 2020. We share our perspective in solidarity with the long traditions, and contemporary, everyday actions of survival and resistance from millions of unnamed members of Black, Indigenous, and other racialized communities across the world. This article calls in the field of sport management, while calling attention to ways anti-Blackness has permeated the academy. Through observations, reflections, and interrogation of literature in the field, we illustrate the invisibility/marginality/erasure of Blackness in this body of knowledge and discuss missed opportunities for sport management. With the hope that the field will transform into a more inclusive, equitable, and just intellectual space, representative of Black, Indigenous, and other racialized voices, perspectives, experiences, and cultures, and accountable to rectifying the injustices inflicted upon Black and other racialized bodies, we offer calls to action for everyone in the field to consider.

Singer (singerjn@tamu.edu) is corresponding author, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9953-6811

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