FIGHTING THE POWER… CAREFULLY? ENGAGING WITH WHITENESS, POWER, AND PRIVILEGE IN UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATIVE ROLES
Publication Date
1-1-2025
Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Social Justice Through Sport and Exercise Psychology: Intergenerational Voices and An Embodied Approach
DOI
10.4324/9781003469247-10
First Page
121
Last Page
135
Abstract
In this chapter, I discuss what initially drew me into issues related to social justice, specifically related to whiteness and racism. I then detail how my path eventually led to the University of Tennessee in late 1998, which at the time was the only program in the US to have a sport psychology program housed within a larger Cultural Studies academic unit, and how it drastically affected my academic and intellectual development. Next, I briefly highlight some of my early work in this area and the ways that I tried to infuse research on racism and athlete empowerment into my teaching and practice. I then discuss some of the ways that I tried to engage with these ideas as I took on a unique administrative role at my institution. In doing so, I hope to show how I continued to lean on core concepts within cultural sport psychology (CSP) to help me navigate the always and already politicized terrain of higher education and the shifting discourses of race, whiteness, and sport.
Department
Kinesiology
Recommended Citation
Ted Butryn. "FIGHTING THE POWER… CAREFULLY? ENGAGING WITH WHITENESS, POWER, AND PRIVILEGE IN UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATIVE ROLES" Social Justice Through Sport and Exercise Psychology: Intergenerational Voices and An Embodied Approach (2025): 121-135. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003469247-10
