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SWIMMING AND ETHNIC-RACIAL ISSUES: MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS

Abstract:

This study analyzes media discourses and their representations about two Brazilian high-performance swimmers in the ethnic-racial debate: Etiene Medeiros e Edvaldo Valério. This research is qualitative, and its results demonstrated that media discourses uncritically appropriate biological scientific traditions that naturalize the absence of blacks at the competitive scenario of international swimming.

Keywords:
Swimming; Blacks; Media

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