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As a topic that hits all the news values of “sex”, crime and sport, sexual assault cases involving athletes are almost invariably media events. When a black (or other “othered”) man is the one accused of sexual violence, sexist and racist stereotypes collide, and these men are often demonised in the media because of their racial heritage.
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Waterhouse-Watson, D. (2019). Who Is the “Real” Victim? Race and Gender in the Trial of an Elite Australian Footballer. In: Andersson, U., Edgren, M., Karlsson, L., Nilsson, G. (eds) Rape Narratives in Motion. Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13852-3_7
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