Abstract

From the late 1930s through to the 1940s, Lowe remained a constant in the city’s sports pages. Yet, in 1946, she moved to the Southern United States to complete her education and did not reside in Canada again. Using Toronto’s White press media reports on Lowe, the present Black feminist analysis nuances a racialized woman’s tortuous journey to success, demonstrating that no amount of public acclaim could obfuscate raciality. Indeed, praise existed alongside othering discourse. Most prominent in this narrative is the notion that, no matter how valued an individual may have been as an integral member of a squad, they were and remained a ‘Black athlete’. This had sociocultural implications and tinted even the acclaims of her most enthusiastic supporters. Lowe also allows a juxtaposition of Canadian and American Black/White relational contexts. Her departure from her hometown is framed by conflicting, yet defining, characteristics of a Canadian society which nurtured an image of tolerance and openness, while firmly endorsing the colour line. Lowe’s athletic biography underscores that locating marginalized peoples within Western sport history is necessary to appreciate how individuals with multilayered subordinate identities fit into, reorganize, and disrupt White/Euro centric grand historical narratives of sport, nation, and settlement.

摘要

从1930年代后期到1940年代，Lowe在这座城市的体育赛事中一直保持不变。然而，在1946年，她移居美国南部以完成学业，并且不再居住在加拿大。利用多伦多的怀特新闻媒体对Lowe的报道，目前的黑人女权主义分析使一个种族化的女性通往成功的曲折旅程变得微妙，表明没有任何公众的称赞可以消除种族歧视。确实，赞美与其他话语并存。在这个叙述中最突出的观点是，无论一个人多么有价值，他都曾经是并仍然是“黑人运动员”。这具有社会文化意义，甚至淡化了她最热情的支持者的赞誉。Lowe还允许将加拿大和美国黑/白关系语境并置。她离开家乡的过程以加拿大社会的矛盾但又具有定义性的特征为特征，该社会培养了宽容和开放的形象，同时坚决支持色线。劳的运动传记强调，在西方体育史中定位边缘人群对于理解具有多重下属身份的个人如何适应，重组和颠覆以白人/欧洲为中心的体育，民族和殖民地大历史叙事是必要的。