/2018/06/08/hooligans-aggression-and-the-fifa-world-cup-how-football-reflects-upon-race-class-gender-power/ Sun, 10 Jun 2018 19:25:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 /2018/06/08/hooligans-aggression-and-the-fifa-world-cup-how-football-reflects-upon-race-class-gender-power/comment-page-1/#comment-718 Sun, 10 Jun 2018 19:25:47 +0000 https://anthrodendum.org/?p=1180#comment-718 I am reminded of a scene from Robert Parker’s Double Deuce. Parker’s hardboiled detective Spenser and his black friend/amoral alter ego Hawk are, in effect, superheroes. They are big, they are tough, they are ruthless, and they have just won a fight with a teenage drug gang that rules the ghetto from which the novel takes its title.. In a reflective mood, Spenser turns to Hawk, who grew up in a ghetto, and asks why the gang’s members had fought while knowing that they they had no chance of winning. Hawk’s reply has haunted me ever since I first read it. I am writing from memory and the wording may not be exact, but this is what Hawk says: “Everybody needs respect. Some people get it for what they own. Some people get it for what they know. But what if you don’t own anything or know anything that others value. If you don’t fight, you’re zero.”

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