David J Leonard
Biographic Data
| ID | 241338 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David J Leonard |
| GIVEN NAMES | David J |
| FAMILY NAME | Leonard |
| SIGNATURE | LEONARD D J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1000-6460 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 135 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Putting the Justice in Environmental Justice Screening Tools: A Case Study on Centering Community Voices and Needs in Southwest Detroit
Government agencies across the United States are increasingly deploying “environmental justice (EJ) screening tools (EJSTs)” to identify impacted communities in environmental policymaking. However, these tools are often composed of exclusively quantitative data, without input from affected communities. Thus, we use our experience creating a ZIP-code-level module of the State of Michigan’s MiEJScreen as a case study on developing EJSTs that are bo…
Leaders of None: Football Coaches and the Hegemony of Oppression
Introducing a special issue looking at football coaches, this essay challenges readers to think about the immense power and privileges afforded by white male coaches alongside their refusal to leverage their immense platforms to advance justice within and beyond the coaching ranks. Focusing on the politics of football coaches and the entrenched place of white men on the sidelines, this special issue seeks to demonstrate the power and importance o…
Leaders of Many: Alternative Models of Coaching a Just Future
Through examining the courageous activism and righteous agitation of Dawn Staley and conclusion examines the potential and possibilities of a new coaching future. It reflects on leadership, the politics of sport, and the power that a coach could play, one that is rarely seen inside football
The Race Denial Card: The NBA Lockout, LeBron James, and the Politics of New Racism
Virtual Anti-racism: Pleasure, Catharsis, and Hope in Mafia III and Watch Dogs 2
This essay examines the representation and consumption of Mafia III and Watch Dogs 2 as a site of catharsis, pleasure, and empowerment. Through not only its representation of white supremacy but its rendering of intervention and transformation as violence, Mafia III and Watch Dogs 2 offer a powerful inscription of gratification. In other words, offering both a space of oppositional gaze and a virtual reality invested in challenging gaze based in …
Saving/Staging Whiteness: Racial Reconciliation in 42 and Fifa 2017/2018
The sporting fields are often imagined as level playing surfaces that empower those who work hard and those who deliver in the name of victories. That is, sports are the ultimate meritocracy. As a meritocracy, sports are also widely praised as a space that brings otherwise divided communities together, breaking down barriers and borders of race, gender, class, sexuality, and nation. Within this context, this paper enters into the racial sporting …
Illegible Black Death, Legible White Pain: Denied Media, Mourning, and Mobilization in an Era of “Post-Racial” Gun Violence
Gun violence is a daily reality; mass shootings, from suburban enclaves to inner city parks, are commonplace. Yet, all violence, all death, all lives, and all gun shootings are not treated equal. This essay examines the ways that anti-Black racism and White privilege (White supremacy) infect discussions of gun violence. In examining a series of incidents, and the broader media/political discourse, this article concludes that race and space overde…
Football, Culture and Power
What does it mean when a hit that knocks an American football player unconscious is cheered by spectators? What are the consequences of such violence for the participants of this sport and for the entertainment culture in which it exists? This book brings together scholars and sport commentators to examine the relationship between American football, violence and the larger relations of power within contemporary society. From high school and colle…
African Americans on Television: Race-ing for Ratings
A comprehensive look at the history of African Americans on television that discusses major trends in black TV and examines the broader social implications of the relationship between race and popular culture as well as race and representation. Previous treatments of the history of African Americans in television have largely lacked theoretical analysis of the relationship between representations and social contexts. African Americans on Televisi…
Never just a game: The language of sport on and off the court
View correction statement:Corrigendum Notes 1. This paper includes and builds on D.J. Leonard's 'Metta World Peace and the Language of Incarceration in Sports Coverage Pt. 1' (2012), http://www.urbancusp.com/newspost/metta-world-peace-and-the-language-of-incarceration-in-sports-coverage-pt-1/. Thanks to Rahiel Tesfmariam
Joe Paterno, White Patriarchy and Privilege: Nostalgia and the football-media complex
The death of Joe Paterno prompted a national moment of silence, a treatment usually reserved for dignitaries. This paper argues that this level of national mourning says less about his importance as a football coach or even a man, but more about the meaning JoPa icon, especially in light of his firing from Penn State. It says as much about us and fears about a lost white masculinity than Paterno. Signifying the end of an 'era' and a perceived com…
Lack of Black Opps: Kobe Bryant and the Difficult Path of Redemption
A fundamental contradiction anchors contemporary sport: for many, it exemplifies racial transcendence; yet racism continues to shape play, persona, and possibilities. For Black athletes, in particular, it opens a space of overdetermination, constraining representation and reception, while challenging their humanity. Following Joe Feagin (2009), this article suggests the white racial frame offers a means of accounting for and unpacking the persist…
Jumping the Gun: Sporting Cultures and the Criminalization of Black Masculinity
It's gotta be the body: Race, commodity, and surveillance of contemporary black athletes
Although the commodification of black bodies amid state violence and widespread racism is nothing new, considering the histories of Hollywood, jazz, minstrelsy, or even athletes enslaved on plantations (Rhoden, 2006), the hyper commodification of the contemporary black athlete, alongside expansive processes of globalization, growth in the profitability of black bodies, and their importance within colorblind discourse, demonstrates the importance …
New Media and Global Sporting Cultures: Moving beyond the Clichés and Binaries
Young, Black (& Brown) and Don'T Give a Fuck: Virtual Gangstas in the Era of State Violence
The popularity and visibility of video games within American popular culture is prompted debates within from a spectrum of institutions, ranging from the media and the academy to Main Street and the political sphere. Erasing the complexity, much of the discourse focuses instead on questions of violence and the impact of gaming culture on (White) American youth. While focusing on Grand Theft: San Andreas specifically, this essay explores the cultu…
Product Review: Troubling the Waters: Black-Jewish Relations in the American Century
Innocent Until Proven Innocent: In Defense of Duke Lacrosse and White Power (and Against Menacing Black Student-Athletes, a Black Stripper, Activists, and the Jewish Media)
As the national media descended on Durham, North Carolina, in wake of public accusations of rape against three Duke Lacrosse student athletes, much of the discourse remained mired in its own shock and awe. Ignoring, if not erasing, histories of sexual violence involving White men and Black women while focusing on the problems plaguing college athletics, the media, and the numerous online defenders of the players used this instance to rearticulate…
White Power and Sport: An Introduction
Racing the Matrix: Variations on White Supremacy in Responses to the Film Trilogy
This article analyzes racialized readings of The Matrixtrilogy. Examining popular, academic, and vernacular sources, in print and online, it probes how commentators talk about race in the films and in turn how they use the films to talk about the racial politics of everyday life. It identifies two major interpretations: multiculturalist and White nationalist. It argues that despite obvious differences, together, these renderings of the trilogy mu…
Racism on Trial: The Chicano Fight for Justice
Journal Article Racism on Trial: The Chicano Fight for Justice Get access Racism on Trial: The Chicano Fight for Justice. By López Ian F. Haney. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. x + 324 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, index. $16.95, paper.) David J. Leonard David J. Leonard Washington State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring …
Not a Hater, Just Keepin' It Real: The Importance of Race- and Gender-Based Game Studies
Notwithstanding the presence of extreme racialized tropes within the world of video games, public discourses continue to focus on questions of violence, denying the importance of games in maintaining the hegemonic racial order. Efforts to exclude race (and intersections with gender, nation, and sexuality) from public discussions through its erasure and the acceptance of larger discourses of colorblindness contribute to a problematic understanding…
The Real Color of Money: Controlling Black Bodies in the NBA
Amid a backlash against the influence of hip-hop within professional basketball, exacerbated by the 2004 brawl at the Palace of Auburn Hills, NBA executives, media pundits, and fans have denounced the influx of Black high school players. This article argues that the establishment of a policy preventing high school players from the NBA is neither a pure business decision nor a hypocritical move by a league that has long profited off the contributi…
Civility in the City: Blacks, Jews, and Koreans in Urban America
Book Review| April 01 2005 Civility in the City: Blacks, Jews, and Koreans in Urban America Civility in the City: Blacks, Jews, and Koreans in Urban America, Jennifer Lee. David J. Leonard David J. Leonard Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2005) 24 (3): 107–109. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501620 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Cita…
The Next M. J. or the Next O. J.? Kobe Bryant, Race, and the Absurdity of Colorblind Rhetoric
In this essay, the author explores the absurdity of colorblind rhetoric within the discursive field of Kobe Bryant’s rape trial. Specifically, in examining articulations on the Internet, television coverage, commentaries, and news reports, this article reveals how colorblind ideologies that dominate public discussions conflict with the racialized discursive utterances surrounding Kobe’s arrest and ongoing trial. In exploring the reactions to accu…
The Real Color of Money: Controlling Black Bodies in the NBA
Amid a backlash against the influence of hip-hop within professional basketball, exacerbated by the 2004 brawl at the Palace of Auburn Hills, NBA executives, media pundits, and fans have denounced the influx of Black high school players. This article argues that the establishment of a policy preventing high school players from the NBA is neither a pure business decision nor a hypocritical move by a league that has long profited off the contributi…
Not a Hater, Just Keepin' It Real: The Importance of Race- and Gender-Based Game Studies
Notwithstanding the presence of extreme racialized tropes within the world of video games, public discourses continue to focus on questions of violence, denying the importance of games in maintaining the hegemonic racial order. Efforts to exclude race (and intersections with gender, nation, and sexuality) from public discussions through its erasure and the acceptance of larger discourses of colorblindness contribute to a problematic understanding…
White Power and Sport: An Introduction
Young, Black (& Brown) and Don'T Give a Fuck: Virtual Gangstas in the Era of State Violence
The popularity and visibility of video games within American popular culture is prompted debates within from a spectrum of institutions, ranging from the media and the academy to Main Street and the political sphere. Erasing the complexity, much of the discourse focuses instead on questions of violence and the impact of gaming culture on (White) American youth. While focusing on Grand Theft: San Andreas specifically, this essay explores the cultu…
New Media and Global Sporting Cultures: Moving beyond the Clichés and Binaries
Jumping the Gun: Sporting Cultures and the Criminalization of Black Masculinity
Lack of Black Opps: Kobe Bryant and the Difficult Path of Redemption
A fundamental contradiction anchors contemporary sport: for many, it exemplifies racial transcendence; yet racism continues to shape play, persona, and possibilities. For Black athletes, in particular, it opens a space of overdetermination, constraining representation and reception, while challenging their humanity. Following Joe Feagin (2009), this article suggests the white racial frame offers a means of accounting for and unpacking the persist…
Illegible Black Death, Legible White Pain: Denied Media, Mourning, and Mobilization in an Era of “Post-Racial” Gun Violence
Gun violence is a daily reality; mass shootings, from suburban enclaves to inner city parks, are commonplace. Yet, all violence, all death, all lives, and all gun shootings are not treated equal. This essay examines the ways that anti-Black racism and White privilege (White supremacy) infect discussions of gun violence. In examining a series of incidents, and the broader media/political discourse, this article concludes that race and space overde…
Civility in the City: Blacks, Jews, and Koreans in Urban America
Book Review| April 01 2005 Civility in the City: Blacks, Jews, and Koreans in Urban America Civility in the City: Blacks, Jews, and Koreans in Urban America, Jennifer Lee. David J. Leonard David J. Leonard Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2005) 24 (3): 107–109. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501620 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Cita…
Innocent Until Proven Innocent: In Defense of Duke Lacrosse and White Power (and Against Menacing Black Student-Athletes, a Black Stripper, Activists, and the Jewish Media)
As the national media descended on Durham, North Carolina, in wake of public accusations of rape against three Duke Lacrosse student athletes, much of the discourse remained mired in its own shock and awe. Ignoring, if not erasing, histories of sexual violence involving White men and Black women while focusing on the problems plaguing college athletics, the media, and the numerous online defenders of the players used this instance to rearticulate…
Joe Paterno, White Patriarchy and Privilege: Nostalgia and the football-media complex
The death of Joe Paterno prompted a national moment of silence, a treatment usually reserved for dignitaries. This paper argues that this level of national mourning says less about his importance as a football coach or even a man, but more about the meaning JoPa icon, especially in light of his firing from Penn State. It says as much about us and fears about a lost white masculinity than Paterno. Signifying the end of an 'era' and a perceived com…
Racing the Matrix: Variations on White Supremacy in Responses to the Film Trilogy
This article analyzes racialized readings of The Matrixtrilogy. Examining popular, academic, and vernacular sources, in print and online, it probes how commentators talk about race in the films and in turn how they use the films to talk about the racial politics of everyday life. It identifies two major interpretations: multiculturalist and White nationalist. It argues that despite obvious differences, together, these renderings of the trilogy mu…
The Next M. J. or the Next O. J.? Kobe Bryant, Race, and the Absurdity of Colorblind Rhetoric
In this essay, the author explores the absurdity of colorblind rhetoric within the discursive field of Kobe Bryant’s rape trial. Specifically, in examining articulations on the Internet, television coverage, commentaries, and news reports, this article reveals how colorblind ideologies that dominate public discussions conflict with the racialized discursive utterances surrounding Kobe’s arrest and ongoing trial. In exploring the reactions to accu…
Civility in the City: Blacks, Jews, and Koreans in Urban America
Book Review| April 01 2005 Civility in the City: Blacks, Jews, and Koreans in Urban America Civility in the City: Blacks, Jews, and Koreans in Urban America, Jennifer Lee. David J. Leonard David J. Leonard Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2005) 24 (3): 107–109. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501620 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Cita…
Racing the Matrix: Variations on White Supremacy in Responses to the Film Trilogy
This article analyzes racialized readings of The Matrixtrilogy. Examining popular, academic, and vernacular sources, in print and online, it probes how commentators talk about race in the films and in turn how they use the films to talk about the racial politics of everyday life. It identifies two major interpretations: multiculturalist and White nationalist. It argues that despite obvious differences, together, these renderings of the trilogy mu…
Racism on Trial: The Chicano Fight for Justice
Journal Article Racism on Trial: The Chicano Fight for Justice Get access Racism on Trial: The Chicano Fight for Justice. By López Ian F. Haney. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. x + 324 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, index. $16.95, paper.) David J. Leonard David J. Leonard Washington State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring …
Not a Hater, Just Keepin' It Real: The Importance of Race- and Gender-Based Game Studies
Notwithstanding the presence of extreme racialized tropes within the world of video games, public discourses continue to focus on questions of violence, denying the importance of games in maintaining the hegemonic racial order. Efforts to exclude race (and intersections with gender, nation, and sexuality) from public discussions through its erasure and the acceptance of larger discourses of colorblindness contribute to a problematic understanding…
The Real Color of Money: Controlling Black Bodies in the NBA
Amid a backlash against the influence of hip-hop within professional basketball, exacerbated by the 2004 brawl at the Palace of Auburn Hills, NBA executives, media pundits, and fans have denounced the influx of Black high school players. This article argues that the establishment of a policy preventing high school players from the NBA is neither a pure business decision nor a hypocritical move by a league that has long profited off the contributi…
Product Review: Troubling the Waters: Black-Jewish Relations in the American Century
Innocent Until Proven Innocent: In Defense of Duke Lacrosse and White Power (and Against Menacing Black Student-Athletes, a Black Stripper, Activists, and the Jewish Media)
As the national media descended on Durham, North Carolina, in wake of public accusations of rape against three Duke Lacrosse student athletes, much of the discourse remained mired in its own shock and awe. Ignoring, if not erasing, histories of sexual violence involving White men and Black women while focusing on the problems plaguing college athletics, the media, and the numerous online defenders of the players used this instance to rearticulate…
White Power and Sport: An Introduction
It's gotta be the body: Race, commodity, and surveillance of contemporary black athletes
Although the commodification of black bodies amid state violence and widespread racism is nothing new, considering the histories of Hollywood, jazz, minstrelsy, or even athletes enslaved on plantations (Rhoden, 2006), the hyper commodification of the contemporary black athlete, alongside expansive processes of globalization, growth in the profitability of black bodies, and their importance within colorblind discourse, demonstrates the importance …
New Media and Global Sporting Cultures: Moving beyond the Clichés and Binaries
Young, Black (& Brown) and Don'T Give a Fuck: Virtual Gangstas in the Era of State Violence
The popularity and visibility of video games within American popular culture is prompted debates within from a spectrum of institutions, ranging from the media and the academy to Main Street and the political sphere. Erasing the complexity, much of the discourse focuses instead on questions of violence and the impact of gaming culture on (White) American youth. While focusing on Grand Theft: San Andreas specifically, this essay explores the cultu…
Jumping the Gun: Sporting Cultures and the Criminalization of Black Masculinity
Lack of Black Opps: Kobe Bryant and the Difficult Path of Redemption
A fundamental contradiction anchors contemporary sport: for many, it exemplifies racial transcendence; yet racism continues to shape play, persona, and possibilities. For Black athletes, in particular, it opens a space of overdetermination, constraining representation and reception, while challenging their humanity. Following Joe Feagin (2009), this article suggests the white racial frame offers a means of accounting for and unpacking the persist…
Never just a game: The language of sport on and off the court
View correction statement:Corrigendum Notes 1. This paper includes and builds on D.J. Leonard's 'Metta World Peace and the Language of Incarceration in Sports Coverage Pt. 1' (2012), http://www.urbancusp.com/newspost/metta-world-peace-and-the-language-of-incarceration-in-sports-coverage-pt-1/. Thanks to Rahiel Tesfmariam
Joe Paterno, White Patriarchy and Privilege: Nostalgia and the football-media complex
The death of Joe Paterno prompted a national moment of silence, a treatment usually reserved for dignitaries. This paper argues that this level of national mourning says less about his importance as a football coach or even a man, but more about the meaning JoPa icon, especially in light of his firing from Penn State. It says as much about us and fears about a lost white masculinity than Paterno. Signifying the end of an 'era' and a perceived com…
African Americans on Television: Race-ing for Ratings
A comprehensive look at the history of African Americans on television that discusses major trends in black TV and examines the broader social implications of the relationship between race and popular culture as well as race and representation. Previous treatments of the history of African Americans in television have largely lacked theoretical analysis of the relationship between representations and social contexts. African Americans on Televisi…
Football, Culture and Power
What does it mean when a hit that knocks an American football player unconscious is cheered by spectators? What are the consequences of such violence for the participants of this sport and for the entertainment culture in which it exists? This book brings together scholars and sport commentators to examine the relationship between American football, violence and the larger relations of power within contemporary society. From high school and colle…
Illegible Black Death, Legible White Pain: Denied Media, Mourning, and Mobilization in an Era of “Post-Racial” Gun Violence
Gun violence is a daily reality; mass shootings, from suburban enclaves to inner city parks, are commonplace. Yet, all violence, all death, all lives, and all gun shootings are not treated equal. This essay examines the ways that anti-Black racism and White privilege (White supremacy) infect discussions of gun violence. In examining a series of incidents, and the broader media/political discourse, this article concludes that race and space overde…
Saving/Staging Whiteness: Racial Reconciliation in 42 and Fifa 2017/2018
The sporting fields are often imagined as level playing surfaces that empower those who work hard and those who deliver in the name of victories. That is, sports are the ultimate meritocracy. As a meritocracy, sports are also widely praised as a space that brings otherwise divided communities together, breaking down barriers and borders of race, gender, class, sexuality, and nation. Within this context, this paper enters into the racial sporting …
The Race Denial Card: The NBA Lockout, LeBron James, and the Politics of New Racism
Virtual Anti-racism: Pleasure, Catharsis, and Hope in Mafia III and Watch Dogs 2
This essay examines the representation and consumption of Mafia III and Watch Dogs 2 as a site of catharsis, pleasure, and empowerment. Through not only its representation of white supremacy but its rendering of intervention and transformation as violence, Mafia III and Watch Dogs 2 offer a powerful inscription of gratification. In other words, offering both a space of oppositional gaze and a virtual reality invested in challenging gaze based in …
Leaders of None: Football Coaches and the Hegemony of Oppression
Introducing a special issue looking at football coaches, this essay challenges readers to think about the immense power and privileges afforded by white male coaches alongside their refusal to leverage their immense platforms to advance justice within and beyond the coaching ranks. Focusing on the politics of football coaches and the entrenched place of white men on the sidelines, this special issue seeks to demonstrate the power and importance o…
Leaders of Many: Alternative Models of Coaching a Just Future
Through examining the courageous activism and righteous agitation of Dawn Staley and conclusion examines the potential and possibilities of a new coaching future. It reflects on leadership, the politics of sport, and the power that a coach could play, one that is rarely seen inside football
Putting the Justice in Environmental Justice Screening Tools: A Case Study on Centering Community Voices and Needs in Southwest Detroit
Government agencies across the United States are increasingly deploying “environmental justice (EJ) screening tools (EJSTs)” to identify impacted communities in environmental policymaking. However, these tools are often composed of exclusively quantitative data, without input from affected communities. Thus, we use our experience creating a ZIP-code-level module of the State of Michigan’s MiEJScreen as a case study on developing EJSTs that are bo…
Political science (20 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (12 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Art (9 works) · Media studies (9 works) · White (mutation (9 works)