The Race and Sports pathway was sponsored by Northern Arizona University’s Black Student Union. Aashli Morgan was the main person who put this event together. She is currently a senior at Northern Arizona University. The pathway also had a panel of five different guests. The first guest was an NAU junior who is on the school's football team. The second guest was NAU junior from Chicago who is on the Basketball team. The third guest is a 32 year old man who played at Penn state and then later on played professional basketball now he is the NAU basketball coach. The fourth guest was 67 year old man that has experience with sports ever since he was a little boy. He has played in the minor league, professionally, and coached. The last guest in the panel was an 46 year old man who is the girls basketball coach at Sinagua Middle School.
The primary purpose of this pathway was to inform students about race and sports. It was about race and sports correlate. This helped
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students get a better understanding of how someone's race affects them in the sport they play. There was also smaller discussions about racial tensions, stereotypes, and who can say the n word. In general, the purpose of this event was to give students and faculty members insight on what minorities go through on and off the field and what we can do to help. Section II The first piece of information I took away from the pathway was about how sports help racial tensions go down.
There was five different guys with different experiences with the race in sports. Something they all agreed with is that they all said that while playing their sport so when they’re on the field or court racial tensions go down. I never thought that actually playing a sport make racial tensions go down. For example one of the panel guest is a basketball coach for a high school girls basketball team in Flagstaff. He told us a story about a time that there was a native American girls on his team that wore buns and the long sticks to hold up their bun. The refery disqualified them and told them they can’t play if they don’t take the sticks holding their bun up down. The whole city of flagstaff ended up hearing about this as well as the rest of America. The coach described the reaction of the nation to be amazing because his team and flagstaff in general never felt more connected
before. The next point from the presentation I learned is how stereotypes do exists in sports. They also exist within athletes themselves. For example football player stereotypes is that they are dumb and slow when it comes to understanding something academically. The are also violent and the are often associated with rape culture. Another example of a sport that has stereotypes attached to it girls basketball. Girls that play girls basketball are often associated with be gay or bi sexual. Because of all of these stereotypes all of the panel guest agreed that all the athletes should try to do their best to try and break those particular stereotypes. For example football players should try and make themselves less violent. The final tip the pathway informed me of is that their still needs to be change in sports and how they treat their athletes. The first thing that I was unaware of was how black athletes in minor or professional teams are often treated worse. They are expected to be angrier and more aggressive. They are also get fouled a lot more than white athletes. One of the panel guests also talked about how minorities have to work harder to keep a certain image of themselves. For example the director of this event showed us a video of Lebron James talking about the “Black Lives Matter” movement and the fox news agent was commentator on that story and all she kept on saying is that he should shut up and dribble. That comment made me realize how corrupt the media is majority of the time when white athletic voice their opinion they are applauded for it but when black athletes do the same thing they are ridiculed for it.
To start off my interpretation analysis of the first two chapters in their book, I will begin by stating a classification I have personally received. In the beginning pages of chapter number one, the authors go on in explaining the misclassification of how the skin color, physical attributes, or origin of a person decide how good they are in physical activity; being Latino, most specifically coming from a Dominican background, people always assumed I was or had to be good in Baseball. This classification always bothered me; one, simply because I hate baseball, to me personally is one of the most boring sports in the planet, and second because my strong physical ability still to this point in life is running. Throughout my High School years, people always seemed shocked when they found out I belonged to the track team instead of the baseball team. There was one occasion, where someone said I was a disgrace to the Dominican Republic, simply because I was not good at striking a ball with a baseball bat. As I reflect on this idea and personal experience, I have found this to be one of the strongest points in chapter one of “Racial Domination, Racial Progress: The Sociology of Race in America”. This is due to in part, because perhaps I can relate to it personally, and because in the world of sports is one of the most frequent things commentators will rely on to explain a team’s or individual success. Apart from the point of sports and physical attributes, the authors also go on in elaborating how this belief of how a person looks, has resulted in dangerous practices in the medical field. This is particularly shocking to
The movie I decided to analyze was Remember the Titans. I examined the dilemmas and ethical choices that were displayed throughout the story. In the early 1970s, two schools in Alexandria Virginia integrate forming T.C. Williams High School. The Caucasian head coach of the Titans is replaced by an African American coach (Denzel Washington) from North Carolina, which causes a fury among white parents and students. Tensions arise quickly among the players and throughout the community when players of different races are forced together on the same football team. Coach Boone is a great example of a leader. He knows he faces a tough year of teaching his hated team. But, instead of listening to the hating town or administrators, Boone pushes his team to their limits and forces good relationships between players, regardless of race. His vision for the team involves getting the players concerned in what the team needs to become, and not what it is supposed to be; a waste. Boone is a convincing leader with a brutal, boot camp approach to coaching. He believes in making the players re-build themselves as a team. When Boone says, You will wear a jacket, shirt, and tie. If you don't have one buy one, can't afford one then borrow one from your old man, if you don't have an old man, then find a drunk, trade him for his. It showed that he was a handy Craftsman and wanted done what he wanted done no matter what it took.During training camp, Boone pairs black players with white players and instructs them to learn about each other. This idea is met with a lot of fighting, but black linebacker Julius Campbell and stubborn white All-American Gerry Bertier. It was difficult for the players to cope with the fact they had to play with and compete with ...
In terms of racial inequality in baseball there have been many eras of integration. Baseball originally is seen as America’s national game belonging to the white men of America. However, throughout history there have been steps taken in recognizing and integrating those groups deemed “less favorable” by the American community. These groups include German immigrants, Irish immigrants, African Americans, Latinos, Native Hawaiians, Native Americans, and Asians. America used the game of baseball as a tool to indoctrinate the American ideals and values of teamwork, working hard, and collaborating for the greater good into the cultures of the “uncivilized world.” These groups used baseball as a medium to gain acceptance into the American community as racially equal counterparts.
Smith , Earl. Race, Sport and the American Dream. Durham, North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press, 2007.
The Civil Rights Era impacted the realm of sports in a great and powerful way. Throughout the mid 1900s, many minority athletes emerged through all odds and began to integrate themselves in the white dominated athletic business. These athletes endured constant hardships in order to achieve their goals and dreams; facing much racism, segregation, and violence. Minorities across the country began to look up to these sportsmen and realized that anybody could attain greatness despite the social troubles of the time. Stories depicting the struggles of minority athletes soon arose and grew popular among different cultures. These true accounts passed from generation to generation, each admiring the courage and bravery of athletes and how important they became in obtaining an equal society. Producers and directors soon found a way to revolutionize the film industry by retelling the racial discrimination that minority athletes faced. Remember the Titans, The Perfect Game, 42, and The Express are all examples of how minority athletes overcame racial adversities in order to obtain the championship. These Hollywood movies contain many inaccuracies that draw away from the true impact minority athletes had during the Civil Right Era. Although these films do depict the racial components of the time, they do not depict the accurate occurrences of the stories they try to recreate.
“African Americans have just as amount of chance of becoming a professional athlete as he or she winning the lottery”. This so called goal of theirs is unrealistic and is highly impossible. There are so many sports athletes but majority of them are of a different c...
One of the major stands that were made during a black athlete’s tenure during his or her sport were their statements on racism. Racism in America was an ongoing situation in the 1900’s that seemed to have no resolve before black athletes took a stand. One prime example can be Jackie Robinson who became the first African-American athlete to play baseball in the modern era. Jackie grew up in one of the most racist towns in Pasadena, California and came from a poor family as his parents were sharecroppers and...
Race, gender, and socioeconomic status are enduring social characteristics that influence life outcomes and children and adolescents cannot control (Murphy, Gaughan, Hume, & Moore, 2010). With the unequal distribution of society’s resources based on race and gender and the negative view of African American males, African American males’ ability to access and complete college is hampered. Although athletics is often viewed as a way to improve one’s life chances, African-American male athletes perform worse academically than any of their peers (Murphy, Gaughan, Hume, & Moore, 2010), which threatens their college completion goals.
Miller, Patrick B. Wiggins, David K. Sport and the color line: Black athletes and Race relations in Twentieth-century America. 2004. The Journal of Southern History 70 (4) (Nov 2004): 990.
Eisen, George, and Wiggins, David K. (1994). Ethnicity and Sport in North American History and Culture. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
The scholars expounds that Black athletes were commodities on the playing field to help win games and bring in revenue to their respected schools. However, the schools were just as eager and willing to leave their Black players behind and dishonoring the player as a part of the team. Therefore, not compromising the team’s winning and bring in profits for the school. Sadly, Black athletes at predominately White institutions (PWIs) who believed that they were bettering the live of themselves and their families members by going to college and playing collegiate sports to increase their post secondary careers. However, these athletes were only “show ponies” for their schools. Unfortunately, Black athletes had allegiance to their school; however, the school turned their backs on the athletes to protect the profit and notoriety of the school and the programs. Money and respect from White fans and spectators were more important to the PWIs than standing up for the respect of their Black players. Racial bigotry in sports was rampant and it was only going to get worse.
Especially how the men’s sport team would engage in behavior that was unacceptable as well as disgusting. The author hit this one right on the nail, he explained how these white young men thought they had the right to say and do these things because of what they look like and where they came from. This article really just made me think more about how people will automatically think they are better because they come from money or because of their
He has played in a lot of different teams and has a lot of different experiences, regarding sports, but in the interview he fair-haired out one occurrence, that happened in the summer. He was playing in a basketball tournament that was being held in a white suburban neighborhood. His team was up by 20 points in the third quarter, he had 17 points and they were literally the only multi-racial team in the tournament. Before starting this game they had eliminated two other teams and each win was by 30 points. Being in such a suburban area, he noticed that all eyes were on his team, but the looks weren’t based on gratitude but looks of hatred. They couldn’t stand to see their race being humiliated and vanquished. Marlon said the referees huddled up and had a 5 minute talk and that’s when things got inequitable or unjust. At the start of the fourth quarter, the ball was supposed to go to Marlon’s team, but the referees gave it to the other team. The refs started calling very unfair and controversial calls causing Marlon’s team to be eliminated and the other team to proceed to the championship. Marlon said this is something that happens every day to many other
Sports programs have been an integral part of all schools. They support the academics of the school and therefore foster success in life. These programs are educational and help produce productive citizenship. They help students experience and build skills that may help them in their future, like interpersonal and time management skills. Education may kindle the light of knowledge, but sports help to maintain the proper physique. Sports are also an important means of entertainment and a use for energy after long hours of study. Sports increase a student’s performance not only in the classroom but also in their life.
My athletic experiences have been very satisfying and positive. In the fist paradox, Sport Unites, Sport divides; Sport unites because it brings people of different class, race and gender together. I have met some great individuals while playing sports that are still my friends today. I have learned a great deal from these encounters. Not only about sports but also different cultures. I had an African American teammate that invited me to her house for a holiday meal, because I could not go home. The diversity ranged from setting, her urban, to my suburban, to food, the smell of greens and chitterlings delighted her and upset my stomach. The team I coach now has little diversity on the team. But, the diversity that it does has, I believe is beneficial to the team. Sport is very competitive, but there is a fine line between competitive and wins at all cost. Play the game and learn from it. I believe that sport can divide also. Sport divides player and coach obliviously but can also divided player with player. Though I have never experienced this, which I know of, I do understand that it is out there. I play and coach the game for the love, competitive nature and the experience of the diversity in culture it can bring together.