Abstract

Histories of the African American YMCA movement have largely silenced the Black actors who made that movement possible. The act of centering those individuals, not just as actors, but as thinkers capable of reshaping leisure’s past and present is an act toward social justice. The purpose of this study is to present and critically examine the ideology of one of those actors: Channing Tobias. His work both inside and outside of the YMCA was devoted to ending racial discrimination. Tobias engaged racial uplift and what I am calling a philosophy of unity as tactics to work against racial discrimination. The goal of his philosophy of unity was to reframe racial discrimination as “everyone’s problem” by connecting it with common social values. Tobias’s ideology challenges the leisure studies discipline to continue to consider the limitations and possibilities of leisure within anti-racist reform.

摘要

非裔美国人基督教青年会运动的历史在很大程度上使使该运动成为可能的黑人演员保持沉默。将这些人集中起来的行为，不仅是作为演员，而且是能够重塑休闲过去和现在的思想家，这是一种实现社会正义的行为。本研究的目的是展示并批判性地研究其中一位演员的意识形态：钱宁·托比亚斯 (Channing Tobias)。他在基督教青年会内外的工作都致力于结束种族歧视。托比亚斯致力于种族提升，我称之为团结哲学，作为反对种族歧视的策略。他的团结哲学的目标是通过将种族歧视与共同的社会价值观联系起来，将种族歧视重新定义为“每个人的问题”。