Teaching about Race and Racism Across the Disciplines

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 20.02.06

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Demographics:
  2. Rationale:
  3. Introduction
  4. Who is in Control of College Football Grid-Iron?
  5. The King of the World, a Criminal to his Country
  6. Somethings Brewing in Syracuse
  7. The Black 14
  8. Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf:
  9. Maya Moore: The Definition of Personal Sacrifice
  10. Objectives
  11. Activities
  12. Appendix for Implementing District Standards
  13. Bibliography

Collusion in the Owner’s Box: How Racism and Oppression Have Built the American Sports Industry

Sean Cameron Means

Published September 2020

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Objectives

Students gain a better understanding of the History of Activism within sports.

Students gain an appreciation for the sacrifices that African American athletes have made in the name of justice, equality and collective progression.

Students should expect to acquire an understanding of how systems and power structures are created and maintained by the dominant class.

Students should expect to reflect on how sports have been manipulated by money, greed and classism over time and why those structures are functioning entities today.

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