Unit Four: Curated Collection, The Role of Race in Professional Sports

One non-fiction print text to read

One set of visual images to view

One composition to listen to

One literature print text to read

"Race: Are We So Different?" Smithsonian Museum of Natural History

"Survey Shows Split on Racial Opportunities"

The Black Ice Project

The Pop History Dig: Reese and Robinson

"The 2011 Racial and Gender Report Card: Major League Baseball"

Shopping While Black You Tube

Targeting Communities of Color

Racial Bias in Basketball Fouls

The Job Crisis by Race and Gender

Baloteli Cartoon

America: When We Do and Don't Talk about Race Cartoon

Cartoon about Sports Mascots

African-American Athletes Pinterest

Sports Moments in Black History for Kids

ESPN Fab Five Documentary (view 10 minutes or so)

"The Unequal Opportunity Race"

"Inspirational: How Great I Am"

"Athlete Speaks Out on Animated Video, Audio Clip"

"Champions: Back History Tribute"

Ira Glass, This American Life: "Tribes"

Keeping Children Safe in Sports You Tube

25 Best Songs about Athletes (note only the songs about athletes of color, please)

10 Best Rap Songs Named after Athletes(note only the songs about athletes of color, please)

"African American Athlete Song"

"NCAA Should Bolster and Reinforce African-American Players," by Frank DeFord (podcast)

"Former WAER Broadcasters Address Race, Gay Rights, Business Issues" podcasts

"Postracial Nation: Blacks, Laissez Faire Racism, and a Changing American Landscape" podcast

"The Black Bruins" (spoken word)

"Stephen A. Smith Explains Kobe's Take on Treyvon Martin" on Arsenio Hall Show

"Stephen A. Smith Brings a Voice of This Generation to Jim Brown's Comments" on Arsenio Hall Show

"Politican's Ridiculous Tweet About NBA: Is It Racist?"

"Proud Racist Radio Host: Obama is a Monkey President"

"Muhammad Ali Speech"

"Muhammad Ali on Black & White"

"Stokely Carmichael's 'We Ain't Going'" speech

"Who Taught You to Hate Yourself?" Malcolm X speech

"Greatest Political Speeches"

"Baseball Star Jackie Robinson Talks Race Relations"

"A Poem for 'Magic'," by Troupe

12H: "The Right (Write) Start: African American Language and the Discourse of Sounding Right," by Dyson and Smithman (attachment)

12H: "Pornographic Eroticism and Sexual Grotesquerie in Representations of African American Sportswomen," by McKaya and Johnson (attachment)

12H: "The Perpetuation of Subtle Prejudice: Race and Gender Imagery in 1990s Television Advertising," by Coltrane and Messineo(attachment)

"Where Bias Begins: The Truth about Prejudice" (attachment)

African American Women's Language: Discourse, Education, and Identity

"White Privilege," by Peggy McIntosh

"Have I No Glory: Dedicated to Usain Bolt and All Black Athletes," by Dedey

"To Satch (or American Gothic)," by Allen (attachment)

"We Real Cool," by Gwendolyn Brooks (attachment)

"What am I?" by Stephen M. Joseph (attachment)

"Pele at Thirteen" by Thom Satterlee (attachment)

"Jackie Robinson," by Mark Snyder (attachment)

"Robert Whitmore,"By Frank Marshall Davis (attachment)

"We Wear the Mask,"by Paul Laurence Dunbar (attachment)

"America," by Jean Toomer (attachment)

"Incident," by Countee Cullen (see attachment)

"Dream Variations," by Langston Hughes (attachment)

"Coventry," by Mari Evans (see attachment)