When white and black athletes faced off in basketball and. Oxing which conversations and disagreements over racial issues took place. This class is about one hour and 10 minutes. Matthew we have been exploring the question of gender and womens rights and sports. We will return our focus to race relations. Were going to explore what i like to call the return of the great white hope in the 1980s. You know all about the original great white hope. You did research on it. Jim jefferies in 1910. He comes out of retirements and white racedeem the war righ and defeat jack johnson. Was unsuccessful. He failed. In the 1980s there were a few white athletes who are thought of in the same way. These were white athletes that White Americans hoped would score symbolic victories in sports and the attitudes towards these athletes suggested that perhaps the nation had not come as far as many people like to thank. Think. States may have entered what commentators were calling a postcivil rights era. The 1
Announcer Matthew Andrews of the university of North Carolina talks about how the racial tensions of the 1980s were reflected in the sports of the era, particularly when white and black athletes faced off in boxing and basketball. He argues that athletes became around which conversations and disagreements over racial issues took place. This class is about one hour in 10 minutes. Matthew andrews we have been exploring the question of gender and womens rights and sports. We will return our focus to race relations. Were going to explore what i like to call the return of the great white hope in the 1980s. You know all about the original great white hope. You did research on it. Jim jefferies in 1910. He comes out of retirements and tries to redeem the white race and defeat jack johnson. Was unsuccessful. He failed. In the 1980s there were a few white athletes who are thought of in the same way. These were white athletes that White Americans hoped would score symbolic victories in sports an
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