Race in the United States

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Students, please click on link below and read Chap 8 (only). Read and summarize: “Confronting America: Black commercial aesthetics, athlete activism and the nation reconsidered,” Ronald Mower, Jacob Bustad, and David Andrews. (21 p)

Confronting America Ch8 (2).pdf

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For anyone that wants to see the Nike commercial that our reading mentions

(Ch 8 Confronting America)

Marvin Gaye: here is the link

(Links to an external site.)

Please write a full 1.5 pages or more for your first Summary Paper.

Required Format: Double-spaced, 12″ font, Times New Roman, 1” margins.

You do not have to answer all the questions below, however, please discuss in your Summary Paper whether the quarterback’s Colin Kaepernick national anthem protest is unpatriotic and whether America is failing to confront police brutality, profiling and racial inequality in America e.g., social protest occurring across America.

Here are some Guiding Questions for you.

1) Do the authors of the chapter present true or false information concerning former (2016) San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick? Is this a society viewpoint of what occurs for African American sports athletes who protest in the United States?

2) How would you define the social construction of race as related to the social construction of sports and the impacts to African American and African American athletes in the United States?

3) Does the social construction of sports apply to racism in the same way that the social construction of race applies to subordinate group members in the United States?

4) Is race and racism a societal and institutional phenomenon, or a personal, individual mindset? Perhaps both? Or, nope, none at all. Racism is systematic!

5) How can people with privilege affect racism in society and the sports world in ways athletes without privilege cannot?

6) And, more importantly, how can all people work collectively to address issues of race, racism, and privilege in the United States and in the sports world?

7) Is your perspective related, or not related, to Race in America and race and sports social protests that we are currently experiencing across America? Law enforcement should not be blamed.

Definition: Social Construction of Sports – sports are a social construction that are given form and meaning by people as they interact with each other under the social, political and economic conditions that exist in their society.