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I co-authored two papers I'm proud of during this 1st TT calendar year and, at the risk of being self-promotional & self-important, I wanted to re-up them here AND share some very basic suggestions for paired readings in Sport Studies classes bc they are "current":
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1: @Fuhr_James83 & I built on memes & racialized masculinity work he's already done and memes & gender work I did w/ @cathryn_lucas, to look at anti-Kaepernick memes & investigate memes, race, gender, nationalism, & politics (2/16): https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0193723520950537
2: @BattsMaddox & I examined Miami U 20+ yrs after dropping a racist mascot to understand the myriad ways in which institutionalized racist capitalism operates culturally & materially (As a Miami alum, I was proud to write this w/ my friend. 3/16) https://journals.humankinetics.com/view/journals/ssj/aop/article-10.1123-ssj.2020-0039/article-10.1123-ssj.2020-0039.xml
While I'm still uncomfortable assigning my own work, I've thought about what I'd pair these articles w/ in the classroom - especially given how they are related to current events, politically active athletes & the WFT & CLE name changes. 4/16
I'd pair our anti-Kaepernick piece w/ 2 other good recent works on Kaepernick and an article on sports & politics that I've had success with in the past. 5/16
Chaplin & Montez de Oca's piece where they interview college students about their reactions to Kaep kneeling gets students to really reflect on their thoughts while also engaging w/ whiteness & patriotism (6/16): https://journals.humankinetics.com/view/journals/ssj/36/1/article-p12.xml
Boykoff & Carrington's IRSS piece does a great job of framing broader media framing of the protests; a nice context for students (7/16). https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1012690219861594
Kaufman & Wolff's isn't the only smart article on sports & politics, but it's been a great teaching article for me. They get to ways why being politically active "makes sense" in the context of sport. 8/16 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0193723509360218
A weakness of my approach using these articles? They don't do a great job talking about Black women politically active athletes, esp 2016-20 WNBA, so I'd assign/use in-class some of the popular media on/by Maya Moore, Renee Montgomery, & Naomi Osaka. 9/16 https://theundefeated.com/features/state-of-the-black-athlete-wnba-maya-moore-a-pioneering-spirit/
For the other article on MU mascot, I think it'd be useful outside of its specific context. It could get students to think about how legacies of racism exist even after symbols are dropped/changed, esp given WFT & CLE. 10/16
This recent WaPo article on Miami's name change was positioned as a way to get WFT fans to think about life after the racist nickname (uses the slur in its title though). (11/16) https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/12/11/miami-ohio-name-change/
But, in terms of academic work, if you have time to assign books I'd be sure to assign the following two: (12/16)
Jennifer Giuliano's _Indian Spectacle: College Mascots and the Anxiety of Modern America_ is a fantastic history of mascots & college sport as spectacle. (13/16) https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/indian-spectacle/9780813565552
C. Richard King's R*dskins: Insult & Brand is a fantastic critical history of the WFT's name and its link to racist capitalism. (Plus, it's one of those books that has easily excerpted chapters if you can't assign a whole book) 14/16 https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9780803278646/
Also, in order to connect our paper on post-name change to current CLE name change, so check out E Staurowsky's great piece on the name's history. 15/16 https://journals.humankinetics.com/view/journals/ssj/15/4/article-p299.xml
I know I've missed a lot of great articles & other great popular media sources, but these are some works that helped inform our projects that I think would also be useful in the classroom. (16/16)
also: sorry for typos throughout. I was writing this thread while intermittently talking w/ a repairperson, who thankfully was able to come this morning to figure out what's wrong w/ my freezer. (aside: why do we put computers in fridges?)
