is college commencement season and some campus protesters are turning their focus this from occupying the quad to disrupting the pomp and circumstance last night, protesters interrupted a commencement ceremony at the university of michigan police arrived suit after the tactics of the protests, there, polarizing but one statement of solidarity with the pro-palestinian student movement caught my eye this week. it s the college decrats of america this an official branch of the democratic party and it s led by students. uh, you know, to win reelection, president biden needs young voters. so when the infrastructure that exists to get him those votes publicly criticizes the president. it s more than just a statement of support the group also added this college democrats votes are not to be taken for granted by the democratic party. we reserve the right to criticize our party when it fails to listen to us with me now, two liters of the college democrats who voted on this solidary so
rights in sports. today we re going to return our focus to race relations and questions of race in american sports and american sports history. specifically, we re 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 the original great white hope. jim jeffreys in 1910 comes out of retirement and tries to redeem the white race and defeat jack johnson in the ring in reno. you know he was unsuccessful. he failed. well, in the 1980s, there emerged a few white athletes who were thought of somewhat in the same way. these were white athletes that white americans hoped would score symbolic victories in sports and the attitudes towards these athlete s suggested that perhaps the nation had not come as far as many people like to think with regards to race. perhaps racial issues had not gone away. the united states may have entered what commentators were calling the post-civil rights er
watch on demand at c-span.org or listen on our free c-span radio app. now, historian matthew andrews of the university of north carolina at chapel hill talks about how the racial tensions of the 1980s were reflected in the sports. particularly when white and black athletes faced off in boxing matches and basketball games and became symbols for racial disagreements. his class is about an hour and ten minutes. okay. we re going to go ahead and get started. we ve been exploring the question of gender and women s rights in sports. today we re going to return our focus to race relations and questions of race in american sports and american sports history. specifically, we re 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 the original great white hope. jim jeffreys in 1910 comes out of retirement and tries to redeem the white race and defeat jack johnson in the ring in
symbols around which conversations and disagreements over racial issues took place. this class is about one hour and 10 minutes. matthew andrews: we have been exploring the question of gender and women s rights and sports. we will return our focus to race relations. we re going to explore what i like to call the return of the great white hope in the 1980 s. you know all about the original great white hope. you did research on it. jim jefferies in 1910. he comes out of retirement s and tries to redeem the white race and defeat jack johnson. was unsuccessful. he failed. in the 1980 s 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 think. the united states may have entered what commentators were calling a post-civil rights era. the 1970 s and the 1980
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 women s rights and sports. we will return our focus to race relations. we re going to explore what i like to call the return of the great white hope in the 1980 s. you know all about the original great white hope. you did research on it. jim jefferies in 1910. he comes out of retirement s and white racedeem the war righ and defeat jack johnson. was unsuccessful. he failed. in the 1980 s 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 post-civil