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Accidentally telling the truth: racial capitalism on the college sports plantation
ABSTRACT On 27 February 2021, Creighton University men’s basketball coach Greg McDermott asked his team “to stay on the plantation.” This essay argues that by quarantining the “the plantation’s” enunciation within an interpersonal, affective space and seizing the opportunity to recuperate intercollegiate athletics through the symbolic terrain of “diversity,” McDermott’s apology and Creighton’s response foreclosed the critical viewpoint that the plantation might otherwise represent.
What Happened at Penn State
It is a time of year when tenure and promotion announcements are beginning to flood academic Twitter and other public spaces where academics dwell. As gratifying as it is to learn about the extraordinary successes that surround me, it is also an occasion to reflect on what tenure means and what it has become. It is hardly news that right-wing panic over scholarship on race, gender, and sexuality have placed tenure under assault from political forces.
Let's Call Athletes 'Workers' And NBA Protests What They Were – Strikes
The Milwaukee Bucks and the NBA protests were the most consequential political development in sports in 50 years: professor of African American sports history. When NBA players refused to take the court for the playoffs, athlete activism escalated to a new level. Joe Murphy/NBAE via Getty Images The Milwaukee Bucks’ startling refusal to take to the court for their NBA playoff game on Aug. 26 was the most consequential political development in sports over the last 50 years.
NBA players effectively went on strike -- this new form of athlete activism is more powerful than 'raising awareness'
The Milwaukee Bucks’ startling refusal to take to the court for their NBA playoff game on Aug. 26 was the most consequential political development in sports over the last 50 years. In recent years, the prevailing media narrative is that athletes have routinely used their platforms to “raise awareness” or “bring attention” to a social issue. Awareness, though, has its limits.
Let's Call NBA Protests What They Were – Strikes | RealClearPolitics
Let's Call NBA Protests What They Were – Strikes When professional athletes refuse to play, they engage in activism that can't be co-opted by team owners and corporate sponsors.
Let's call athletes workers, and let's call these NBA protests what they were – strikes Original
The Milwaukee Bucks’ startling refusal to take to the court for their NBA playoff game on Aug. 26 was the most consequential political development in sports over the last 50 years. In recent years, the prevailing media narrative is that athletes have routinely used their platforms to “raise awareness” or “bring attention” to a social issue. Awareness, though, has its limits.
Muzzling Colin Kaepernick
Colin Kaepernick’s ongoing refusal to stand for the national anthem during NFL games should occasion vigorous public debate regarding the problem of police violence.
Teachers hold demo over pay as Knut announces start of strike
Learning in schools in Kisumu County remained paralysed for the third day on Wednesday after learning institutions failed to open. The schools remained closed as teachers' unions engaged government in talks over the recently awarded pay rise by the Court of Appeal in which teachers received a 50-60 per cent salary increment. Teachers in the county held a peaceful demonstration carrying placards accusing the Teachers Service Commission of frustrating them.
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