The emerging commitment to social justice promotion around the world has resulted in the need to develop a pedagogy rooted in anti-oppressive practice (AOP) within youth sport research. The AOP pedagogy acknowledges the importance of three key concepts: cultural competence, cultural humility, and critical consciousness. Moving forward, as youth sport research continues to evolve, promising possibilities may be possible in a more socially-just world. Youth sport scholars have begun taking important steps toward acknowledging--and, in some instances, addressing--social inequities and injustices throughout youth sport. Conversely, complex challenges have also emerged and corrupted the way in which social justice and research pertaining to social injustices are positioned. The purpose of this manuscript is to examine, reflect upon, and critique the ways social justice has been positioned throughout youth sport research and, in turn, provide implications for contemporary academia. In the end, youth sport scholars should continue to consider their unique positionality within traditional systems of power-privilege-oppression, seek opportunities to increase their critical consciousness, cultural competence, and cultural humility, and embody a critical praxis for social justice promotion.