Delia D Douglas
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673128 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Delia D Douglas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Delia D |
| FAMILY NAME | Douglas |
| SIGNATURE | DOUGLAS D D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Independent Scholar, Vancouver, BC, Canada |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Un/Covering White Lies
This project examines a Canadian court case that involves the largest arson homicide in the history of Vancouver, British Columbia. In May 2006 a fire killed four members of a Congolese refugee family (Adela Etibako and three of her children, Benedicta, Edita, and Stephane) along with Ashley Singh, the South Asian girlfriend of the target and sole survivor of the fire, Bolingo Etibako. On October 5, 2008 the accused, Nathan Fry, a 20-year-old whi…
Black Female Athletes
This essay concerns the activism and resistance of Black female athletes. The presence of Black female activist athletes corresponds to the duration of their athletic participation at the start of the 20th century. This piece is interested in the gender-specific elements of anti-Blackness to make visible diverse Black women as both targets and activists. I offer a number of examples of Black female activist athletes, past and present, to make vis…
Forget Me . . . Not
In 2008, Marion Jones was convicted and sentenced to 6 months in a federal prison for lying to federal prosecutors about steroid use and knowledge of a check-cashing scheme. This article explores the Jones scandal and the aftermath in the context of the contemporary cultural politics of Black female bodies and Black womanhood. I examine these events in the era of mass incarceration and a post-9/11 culture. I argue that the fervor and contempt exp…
Private Mark Graham, un/known soldier
On 4 September 2006, Private Mark Anthony Graham, a 33-year-old black Canadian, was killed in Afghanistan in a so-called friendly fire incident. An elite athlete prior to his military career, Graham, who was born in Jamaica and grew up in Hamilton, Ontario, had also been a member of the Canadian 4 × 400-metre relay team that competed in the 1992 Olympic games. This article examines the mainstream television and print media accounts that emerged f…
Race and Sport in Canada
Reviewed by: Race and Sport in Canada: Intersecting Inequalities ed. by Janelle Joseph, Simon Darnell, and Yuka Nakamura Delia D. Douglas Janelle Joseph, Simon Darnell, and Yuka Nakamura, eds. Race and Sport in Canada: Intersecting Inequalities. Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press, 2012. 302 pp. 34.95 sc. This anthology signals an important intervention into an area of study that has long been marginalized, namely the significance of race and the p…
Venus, Serena, and the Inconspicuous Consumption of Blackness
As the U.S. population becomes more racially diverse and different groups move in to previously White-dominated spaces, new techniques of exclusion and marginalization are being employed in an effort to regulate the opportunities and progress available to racialized minority groups. In this article, the author argues that mass media’s preoccupation with the Williams sisters’ “on-court” play and “off-court” activities constitutes a form of surveil…
The wages of whiteness
In this paper, we draw attention to the profound lack of racial diversity as well as the prevalence of whiteness within Canadian faculties of Kinesiology and Physical Education. In support of our argument that there exists an immediate need for equity programming within physical education in higher education, we present the results from two interconnected studies designed to make transparent: (1) the demographic character of faculties of Kinesiol…
A Farewell to Remember
Researchers have illustrated how this post–Civil Rights period is marked by significant changes to the organization and implementation of systems of racial stratification and expressions of racialized hostility. Consonant with the persistence of racial inequality is the notion that “race” is no longer relevant. In this context, we consider print media accounts of Nancy Lopez’s participation in 14 tournaments between June and October 2002. The Lop…
Venus, Serena, and the Women’s Tennis Association
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 ins…
Venus, Serena, and the Women’s Tennis Association
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 ins…
The wages of whiteness
In this paper, we draw attention to the profound lack of racial diversity as well as the prevalence of whiteness within Canadian faculties of Kinesiology and Physical Education. In support of our argument that there exists an immediate need for equity programming within physical education in higher education, we present the results from two interconnected studies designed to make transparent: (1) the demographic character of faculties of Kinesiol…
A Farewell to Remember
Researchers have illustrated how this post–Civil Rights period is marked by significant changes to the organization and implementation of systems of racial stratification and expressions of racialized hostility. Consonant with the persistence of racial inequality is the notion that “race” is no longer relevant. In this context, we consider print media accounts of Nancy Lopez’s participation in 14 tournaments between June and October 2002. The Lop…
Private Mark Graham, un/known soldier
On 4 September 2006, Private Mark Anthony Graham, a 33-year-old black Canadian, was killed in Afghanistan in a so-called friendly fire incident. An elite athlete prior to his military career, Graham, who was born in Jamaica and grew up in Hamilton, Ontario, had also been a member of the Canadian 4 × 400-metre relay team that competed in the 1992 Olympic games. This article examines the mainstream television and print media accounts that emerged f…
Venus, Serena, and the Women’s Tennis Association
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 ins…
A Farewell to Remember
Researchers have illustrated how this post–Civil Rights period is marked by significant changes to the organization and implementation of systems of racial stratification and expressions of racialized hostility. Consonant with the persistence of racial inequality is the notion that “race” is no longer relevant. In this context, we consider print media accounts of Nancy Lopez’s participation in 14 tournaments between June and October 2002. The Lop…
Venus, Serena, and the Inconspicuous Consumption of Blackness
As the U.S. population becomes more racially diverse and different groups move in to previously White-dominated spaces, new techniques of exclusion and marginalization are being employed in an effort to regulate the opportunities and progress available to racialized minority groups. In this article, the author argues that mass media’s preoccupation with the Williams sisters’ “on-court” play and “off-court” activities constitutes a form of surveil…
The wages of whiteness
In this paper, we draw attention to the profound lack of racial diversity as well as the prevalence of whiteness within Canadian faculties of Kinesiology and Physical Education. In support of our argument that there exists an immediate need for equity programming within physical education in higher education, we present the results from two interconnected studies designed to make transparent: (1) the demographic character of faculties of Kinesiol…
Forget Me . . . Not
In 2008, Marion Jones was convicted and sentenced to 6 months in a federal prison for lying to federal prosecutors about steroid use and knowledge of a check-cashing scheme. This article explores the Jones scandal and the aftermath in the context of the contemporary cultural politics of Black female bodies and Black womanhood. I examine these events in the era of mass incarceration and a post-9/11 culture. I argue that the fervor and contempt exp…
Private Mark Graham, un/known soldier
On 4 September 2006, Private Mark Anthony Graham, a 33-year-old black Canadian, was killed in Afghanistan in a so-called friendly fire incident. An elite athlete prior to his military career, Graham, who was born in Jamaica and grew up in Hamilton, Ontario, had also been a member of the Canadian 4 × 400-metre relay team that competed in the 1992 Olympic games. This article examines the mainstream television and print media accounts that emerged f…
Race and Sport in Canada
Reviewed by: Race and Sport in Canada: Intersecting Inequalities ed. by Janelle Joseph, Simon Darnell, and Yuka Nakamura Delia D. Douglas Janelle Joseph, Simon Darnell, and Yuka Nakamura, eds. Race and Sport in Canada: Intersecting Inequalities. Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press, 2012. 302 pp. 34.95 sc. This anthology signals an important intervention into an area of study that has long been marginalized, namely the significance of race and the p…
Black Female Athletes
This essay concerns the activism and resistance of Black female athletes. The presence of Black female activist athletes corresponds to the duration of their athletic participation at the start of the 20th century. This piece is interested in the gender-specific elements of anti-Blackness to make visible diverse Black women as both targets and activists. I offer a number of examples of Black female activist athletes, past and present, to make vis…
Un/Covering White Lies
This project examines a Canadian court case that involves the largest arson homicide in the history of Vancouver, British Columbia. In May 2006 a fire killed four members of a Congolese refugee family (Adela Etibako and three of her children, Benedicta, Edita, and Stephane) along with Ashley Singh, the South Asian girlfriend of the target and sole survivor of the fire, Bolingo Etibako. On October 5, 2008 the accused, Nathan Fry, a 20-year-old whi…
Gender Studies (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (6 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Race, History, and American Society (5 works) · Racism (5 works)