and frances rivera. firefighters are gaining momentum on some wildfires raging across southern california, but the ever expanding thomas fire is still out of control, scorching 230,000 acres and just 10% contained. it s now the fifth largest wildfire in the state s modern history. the inferno leveled 790 structures while damaging nearly 200 others, and it s threatening 18,000 more. more than 5,700 firefighters are working around the clock to battle thomas, but extreme weather conditions are hampering their efforts. nbc s dan schenamen has more from the ground. reporter: the thomas fire, the biggest in southern california, is still on the move. over the last 12 to 14 hours, we ve experienced some extreme fire behavior. reporter: a new flare-up in santa barbara county. more than 5,000 residents under a mandatory evacuation order. the conditions perfect for wildfires. we re in december. right. the vegetation is as dry as it s ever been. you know, we haven t had r
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
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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