"When Said with a Sneer" Translating Language, Race, and Culture Through an English Football Race Controversy
This article examines the origins and aftermath of a 2011 English football race controversy, where an English Football Association tribunal found Uruguayan Luis Suarez guilty of using racially abusive language against Patrice Evra, a Frenchman of Senegalese descent. It approaches the Suarez Evra controversy as a flashpoint of broader transformations in England, France, and Uruguay associated with sports, race, and nationalism, highlighting the problematic nature of cultural and linguistic translation under shifting racial, ethnic, and cultural dynamics. The controversy also provided an opportunity for Afro Uruguayans to collectively denounce and redress longstanding forms of racism in that country. [Soccer (football) Race; Globalization; England; France; Uruguay]