Asian Americans in Sport and Society (COMM 2283)

Communication · Boston College

This course may be used to satisfy one of four electives required within the Communication major.In the mid-twentieth century, sport was a bastion of white supremacy, and it embodied such U.S national bodily ideals as white, heterosexual, Christian, muscular, and male. Histories of racial exclusion, racist violence, gendered policing, and sexual regulations positioned African-American men as outside the normative abilities of white men. In this respect, sport was a microcosm of the racial nation, with the language of citizenship and racial resistance coded within black-white discourse; however

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