Power Play: How Systemic Racism Shapes Sports

We'd like to think of sports as the great equalizer, as the one area of American life where a person regardless of race can enter the arena and find a level playing field, so to speak. Unfortunately, systemic racism is as deeply rooted in sports as it is in most other aspects of American society. Join Dr. Carol François and Kourtney Square, her niece, as they peel back the systemic racism that permeates major league, college, and all levels of sports in America. Want more, take our course Systemic Racism: See it, Say it, Confront it at www.whyaretheysoangry.com and find us anywhere at www.podpage.com.whyaretheysoangry

Citations

“A St. John’s fencing coach is fired after making racist remarks,” Derrick Bryson Taylor, New York Times, June 13, 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/13/sports/st-johns-fencing-coach-fired.html

American Tennis Association changed the face of tennis in the U.S.,” Steve Tignor, Tennis.com,December 5, 2016. https://www.tennis.com/pro-game/2016/12/american-tennis-association-changed-face-tennis-us/62274/

“Athletes and activism: The long, defiant history of sports protests: From Ali to Althea Gibson and Bill Russell to LeBron, players have used their platform to spotlight injustice and chosen ceremonial moments to take a stand,” Steve Wulf, The Undefeated, January 30, 2019

https://theundefeated.com/features/athletes-and-activism-the-long-defiant-history-of-sports-protests/

“Black Lives Matter: Dealing with golf’s ugly history and contradictions,” Mark Wagner,  Telegram and Gazette, July 18, 2020. https://www.telegram.com/story/opinion/columns/guest/2020/07/18/as-i-see-it-dealing-with-golfs-ugly-history-and-contradictions/113730094/

European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance, https://www.coe.int/en/web/european-commission-against-racism-and-intolerance

“Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: what sports have taught me about race in America,” Kareem Abdul-Jabba, The Guardian, August, 2018. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/aug/28/notes-from-an-ungrateful-athlete-why-race-and-sports-matter-in-america