Skating while black: performances of race and gender within recreational ice hockey

<p>In this paper I use auto-ethnography to illuminate how the sporting space of hockey can construct understandings of race and masculinity. Through personal vignettes I carve out the ways I am read as a black male within the space of hockey, while at the same time re-constructing my own identity as a black male through the writing process. Thus this paper uses evocative forms of writing to engage the reader and open up a dialogue about the ways race and gender structure the space of sport.</p>