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Please write about the history and current state of affairs of racism in football (soccer). Specifically, please
touch on the racial/ethnic abuse from fans and the responsibilities of FIFA/UEFA in policing said abuse. This is
if course a question that other sports and leagues have dealt with–some better than others–though probably
not as much as football. Is there a particular episode of this you can think of? Has FIFA ever put out any kind of
statement about this?
Other potential topics / questions you can write about:
-Players from formally colonized countries playing for their colonizer’s national football team (e.g. African
players playing France and Belgium national teams)
-Mohamed Salah causing a decrease in hate crimes in Liverpool
-Insaka FC
-Using sports as a vehicle for change
-How has the sport made improvements to racist behavior and policies? What has worked and what has not?
-When and where global and local inequalities in football have discernible connections to historical (and
contemporary) racialized power structures?
-How can institutions hold fans accountable for racist behavior?
-How have governing bodies of football participated in issues of race a

nd ethnicity in the past and how can they
be most effective in the future?
You can write about as many or as few of the topics / questions listed above. Here are are some sources that
will help you answer these topics and questions:
https://journals-sagepub-com.stanford.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10.1177/1367549418823057
https://uefaacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/20130501_Van-Sterkenburg_Final-Report.pdf
https://www-tandfonline-com.stanford.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10.1080/17430437.2016.1158472
https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/racism-soccer-epidemic-mirrors-disturbing-trends-europe-advocates/story?
id=67850877
https://www.routledge.com/Ethnicity-and-Race-in-Association-Football-Case-Study-analyses-inEurope/Hassan/p/book/9781138377554
https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/bitstream/handle/1969.1/148621/Arishita.pdf
https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.869.4911&rep=rep1&type=pdf
https://hemisphericinstitute.org/en/emisferica-5-2-race-and-its-others/5-2-essays/race-futbol-and-theecuadorian-nation-the-ideological-biology-of-non-citizenship.html
https://www.ajc.com/lifestyles/pele-soccer-legend-has-spoken-race-but-some-say-notenough/VjWrpdpG9uZTixV9aWSLxM/