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`Black magic', nationalism and race in Australian football

Centre for Contemporary Art and Politics at the University of New South Wales

In 1993, Aboriginal Australian rules footballer Nicky Winmar mounted a protest against racism in the game by approaching abusive supporters of an opposing team, lifting his jersey and pointing to his black skin. The now famous photograph which captured the incident condenses in a single image a key moment in the long history of struggle by Indigenous Australians for cultural recognition and economic equality. Taking the photograph as its cue, this article explores the ways in which Australia's residual white-settler culture continues to exclude certain groups from national belonging. In particular, it is argued that Winmar and other black sports stars of the early 1990s were able to challenge the unofficial code of `mateship' in Australian male culture which, more recently, has been an important bulwark of the country's post-9/11 neo-nationalist mood.

Key Words: masculinity • racism in sport • representation of Aborigines • whiteness

Race & Class, Vol. 49, No. 4, 22-37 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0306396808089285


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