โปรแกรมจะเรียงประโยคให้ฉันได้ทันทีResearch concerning women of color in sport tends to center around several topics:
barriers to participation, racial stereotyping, symbolic annihilation, and the intersecting
axes of power that influence their involvement and representation. Furthermore, while
there exists a rich body of literature that hair has inspired in black feminist scholarship,
these works have overlooked the experiences of black female athletes. In this project I seek
to bridge these two bodies of knowledge through focus groups and personal interviews
with black female collegiate athletes. Specifically, I examine three issues related to hair in
the context of black women’s athletic experiences: 1) as a particular racialized, gendered,
and sexualized expression of self; 2) as a signifier of “other” in sport and society; and 3) as
a possible cultural barrier to specific athletic endeavors. By bridging the disconnect
between the two fields, I will address the ways that hair is an embodied cultural form
influencing the physical culture of women of color.