Football and Discrimination

Pavel Brunssen is a PhD candidate at the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan, USA, where he is also pursuing a graduate certificate in Judaic Studies at the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. His main research interests include antisemitism and antigypsyism in European football fan cultures. In 2011, Pavel cofounded a magazine called Transparent, of which he was editor in chief until 2017, that focuses on the political aspects of soccer fan cultures. Stefanie Schüler-Springorum is a historian and Director of the Center for Research on Antisemitism, Germany. She is also Co-Director of the Selma-Stern- Center for Jewish Studies, Germany, and directs the Berlin branch of the Center for Research on Social Cohesion. Her fields of research include Jewish, German, and Spanish history.

Introduction, Part I: Prologue, 1. Collective Identity and Forms of Abuse and Discrimination in Football Fan Culture: A Case Study on Antisemitism, Part II: Ressentiment, 2. The Image of the “Judenklub” in Interwar European Soccer: Myth or Reality?, 3. The Sociopolitical Roots of Antisemitism Among Football Fandom: The Real Absence and Imagined Presence of Jews in Polish Football, 4. Antisemitism in German Football Since the 1980s, 5. Antisemitic Ressentiment-Communication Directed at RB Leipzig in German Football Fan Culture: The Third Other, Part III: Identity, 6. Self-Directed Racialized Humor as In-Group Marker Among Migrant Players in a Professional Football Team: “Dude, Just Draw the Racist Card!”, 7. Racism and Interethnic Conflict in Amateur Football: The Case of Migrant Sport Clubs in Germany, 8. Struggling to Belong in the Face of Otherness: The Atlanta Fútbol Club of Buenos Aires, Part IV: (Anti-)discrimination, 9. Appealing to a Common Identity: The Case of Antisemitism in Dutch Football, 10. Eintracht Frankfurt Fans and the Museum: Football History, Remembrance Culture, and the Fight Against Antisemitism, 11. A Comment on Several Specific Aspects of Remembrance and Education Projects in Football, 12. The Twofold American Exceptionalism in Soccer Fandom: Anti-Discriminatory Activism Among Organized Soccer Supporters in the United States, Part V: Epilogue, 13. What Is It About Association Football – the Arrogantly Self-Appointed ‘Beautiful Game’ - That Renders Most (Though Not All) of Its Fan Cultures So Ugly?