ABSTRACT
This chapter examines whiteness as concept, identity and process in sport and leisure research. It explores whiteness and its dynamics in research. In particular, the chapter engenders a collective conversation with research-active scholars to reveal how individual identities impact upon how research is conducted and how racialised power is resisted, reinforced and created. While White male power dominates the academy their voices are invited here to reflect upon research on 'race' mainly because these critically reflective voices are inconsistently directly challenged or critiqued. As a Black professor working regularly with White academics it has become increasingly important for us to interrogate our racialised selves in how authors approach research on 'race'; to shift the binaries of race knowers and race ignorant so that we are all consciously implicated in racialised struggles. The concept of the 'invisibility of whiteness' in the media resonates with the theme of 'colourblindness' as a theoretical frame to explore whiteness.
