Venus, Serena, and the Women’s Tennis Association
When and Where “Race” Enters
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12082000 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Delia D Douglas (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 255-281 |
| Publication date | 2005-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology of Sport Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0741-1235 • E-ISSN: 1543-2785 |
| Publisher | Human Kinetics (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1123/ssj.22.3.255 |
| OpenAlex | W1524643005 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 37 |
By 2002 Venus and Serena Williams were the top two women players on the women’s professional tennis tour. Nevertheless, despite their spectacular success, there has been a decidedly ambivalent tenor toward their accomplishments. Applying Raymond Williams’ concept of “structures of feeling,” this essay considers how dominant cultural meanings and values are taken up and expressed through the atmosphere produced at a sport event. Drawing on the insights offered by critical race scholarship and critical whiteness studies, the following discussion examines the character and significance of the atmosphere produced at two tournaments (Indian Wells, CA, in 2001 and the French Open in 2003) in order to understand how white racial subjectivities are conceived and communicated in daily life
Aesthetics · Ambivalence · Art · Association (psychology · Atmosphere (unit · Feeling · Geography · Humanities · Political science · Race (biology · Scholarship · Sociology · White (mutation · Gender Studies · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society · Social Psychology · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society
Serena Williams
«Gjennomsnittskvinnen», kjønnstesting og det hvite blikket
Imane Khelif
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‘We’re, like, a cute rugby team’
Forget Me . . . Not
Well, what was the message you got
Together, yet still not equal? Sex integration in equestrian sport
Scholarship on Gender and Sport in Sex Roles and Beyond
New Rules for New Times
Gender-Typing of Children’s Sports Toys Persists
The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Nationality in Sport
Managing and Monitoring Equality and Diversity in UK Sport
Submersed in Social Segregation
Structures of feeling in the affective economies of renting in the Majority World
The Sports Issue
Women Play Sport, But Not on TV
Reflections on Communication and Sport
The Sport Nexus and Gender Injustice
It’s what we’ve always done’
Comparing the Black and Gay Male Athlete
Capturing racism
Space Invaders at Wimbledon
It’s Not About the Game
Once More, With Feeling
Introduction
Spectacle, Distance, and Threat
The Non-Sweet Sixteen
Through the Decades
The Impossibility of Being “Perfect and White”
The ball and the rhythm in her blood
Voetsek! Get[ting] lost
Racist Stacking in Professional Soccer in Germany
Powerful Lessons' in Women's Sport
White Power and Sport
Intersectionality, Critical Race Theory, and American Sporting Oppression
Pornographic eroticism and sexual grotesquerie in representations of African American sportswomen
| Unique citing works | 37 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,85 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2025 (20) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 37 |