The Color of Money

[Joanna Sheldon]

At 21:00 30-11-00, Doug wrote:
>On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Christopher B. Hajib-Niles wrote:
>
> > you assign them to? (do you think that the english can be racist against
> > the french, or the germans, or the serbians? why or why not?)
>
>Of course -- as two hideous world wars on the continent of Europe have
>proven.

Not to speak of the football games... I highly recommend in this regard 
Simon Kuper's excellent _Football Against the Enemy_.

As for racism against blacks, that too flourishes in football crowds.  See 
Kuper's latest article in the Guardian on racism at football games in Italy:

Sunday November 19, 2000

                                                          Italians are 
growing increasingly

                                                          shocked at the 
bad behaviour of their

                                                          football fans. 
The Italy-England

                                                          friendly and 
other recent events

                                                          suggest the 
problem is getting worse.

                                                          Italian 
newspapers deplored the racist

                                                          booing of 
England's Emile Heskey

                                                          during 
Wednesday's match in Turin.

                                                          This followed the 
abuse hurled at

                                                          Arsenal's Patrick 
Vieira last month by

                                                          Lazio's player 
Sinisa Mihajlovic.

                                                          <....>

                                                          In Italy, an 
almost entirely white nation

                                                          with a powerful 
far-right movement,

                                                          little attention 
has been paid so far to

                                                          racism in 
football. T-shirt campaigns

                                                          against it have 
been largely

                                                          ineffectual. The 
'Ultra' fans of many

                                                          clubs are openly 
racist and are linked

                                                          to far-right 
movements. The racism

                                                          last season was 
among the worst on

                                                          record. (etc...)

http://www.footballunlimited.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,4284,399734,00.html

Btw, for those wanting to track it down, Kuper's book is not available from 
the US Amazon but is from the Amazon.co.uk.

cheers,
Joanna
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