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Fans with protest signs

Images collected from The Guardian and The Nation.

Sports & Politics in the U.S.

Monday, April 8, 2019 to Friday, April 12, 2019
Theme week organized by
Dafna KaufmanThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • sports
  • politics
  • nationalism

"Brand Ambassadors": Cheerleaders, Gendered Labor, and Institutional Crisis in the NFL

By Brett Siegel
Monday, April 8, 2019
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Still from a football game where a concussion type injury is occured

Defamiliarizing Concussions

By Nathan Kalman-Lamb
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf with Colin Kaepernick

Invisible Man: Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf's Forgotten Protest

By Dafna Kaufman
Wednesday, April 10, 2019

How The Treatment of Women Sportscasters Foretold The Rise of Trumpism

By Guy Harrison
Thursday, April 11, 2019
Dr. Christine Blasey Ford Sports Illustrated

Sports, Politics, and the #MeToo Movement

By Kathleen Bachynski
Friday, April 12, 2019
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