Category: Humanities : Ethnic Studies

Below is a list of readings and videos from this week’s material. You must write a 250-word response for each of these on the list by responding to the question for each. Please type up each response in one document and be sure to mark clearly which reading or video you are writing about. Please only…

The video we watched this week about sex testing in sports brings up the issue of fairness. (The article also touches on this as well.) As the video notes different people have different biological advantages and disadvantages . In this post–which is less about facts and right/wrong–please address the following question: why do the IAAF…

The sports experience of the black college athlete: Exploitation in the academy (Leonard, 1986) Watch: Student Athlete(HBO documentary available via East Bay library) (please note that there is another documentary out there in the world also called Student Athlete. You want the one produced by HBO from 2018) Instructions for the documentary responses are under…

Off The Rez You MUST also include in your response HOW the article about HASKELL fits into this piece about Indigenous athletes. How have things changed or not for Indigenous athletes? Where do you see connections between the experiences the Haskell athletes had and what Shimmel has had? Lords of the Prairie: Haskell Indian school…

Documentary Responses Several times this semester you will write a response to a documentary that you will be required to watch. The documentaries, like the articles you read, are texts. We just “read” them differently. Use these responses to explore the topic of race and intersecting identities. Documentaries provide unique ways to understand an issue.…

Case Study Please read the following instructions thoroughly and ask questions if you have them! For this case study you must choose a controversial event or incident, (or limited series of incidents) from the world of sports in which race was a factor in the controversy (or wasn’t and should have been, i.e., the racial…

Sport, Racism, and Ethnicity​​​​​​ Case Study Please read the following instructions thoroughly and ask questions if you have them! For this case study you must choose a controversial event or incident, (or limited series of incidents) from the world of sports in which race was a factor in the controversy (or wasn’t and should have…

You will write a 3-5 page (double-spaced) paper chronicling an issue, athlete, sport, or moment leading up to this upcoming Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris, France. Using the archival methodologies we’ve discussed over the term so far, dissect the text you’ve chosen, considering the sociocultural history and contemporary issues within the modern Olympic…