Ferguson Cultivates Black Athlete Sister Circle

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (12) ◽  
pp. 9-14
Author(s):  
Lois Elfman
Keyword(s):  
Black Athlete

Review: The Revolt of the Black Athlete: 50th anniversary edition

Race & Class ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 113-114
Author(s):  
Braham Dabscheck
Keyword(s):  
50Th Anniversary ◽  
Black Athlete

From Lew Alcindor to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Race, Religion, and Representation in Basketball, 1968–1975

2016 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 437-470
Author(s):  
ARAM GOUDSOUZIAN
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Religious Conversion ◽  
Black Athlete ◽  
Name Change ◽  
Politics And Religion ◽  
Conversion To Islam ◽  
Authority Figures ◽  
The Press ◽  
Self Discovery ◽  
Over Time

From 1968 to 1975, Lew Alcindor/Kareem Abdul-Jabbar traveled a turbulent personal path toward self-discovery. His journey had profound implications for the larger cultural landscape of race, sport, politics, and religion. As he became professional basketball's chief superstar, he was framed by the press as sullen and solitary, and he served as the villain in a media-driven storyline informed by popular prejudices. Yet for many African Americans and other progressive fans, he exemplified the ideals that made black power uplifting and affirmative, rather than threatening. His conversion to Islam and his name change further shaped new cultural and political territory for the black athlete. It highlighted a personal struggle within Abdul-Jabbar – he sought a kind of personal freedom, even as he revealed a tendency to subsume himself before strong authority figures. He nevertheless stood, in this period, as the nation's most prominent face of classical Islam. His religious conversion further distanced him from much of the American public, but over time he presented an effective, progressive narrative about the place of Islam in American life.

Sports and Sexuality

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik N. Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Coming Out ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Western World ◽  
Sexual Expression ◽  
Black Athlete ◽  
Tennis Players ◽  
The Past ◽  
Jack Johnson ◽  
Headline News ◽  
Heterosexual Behavior

This chapter explores the intersection between athletic practices and sexual expression, primarily in the Western world, beginning with the same-sex eroticism of gymnasia in ancient Greece and the charged atmosphere of gladiatorial contests in Rome. After brief mentions of jousting and the Renaissance celebration of chiseled torsos, the chapter focuses on sports’ nineteenth-century reemergence as a chaste antidote to sexual desire, particularly in the movement known as “muscular Christianity.” Already by the early 1900s, however, athletes had begun to cultivate highly sexualized images. The heavyweight boxer Jack Johnson, in particular, epitomized white fears of the athletically indomitable and sexually insatiable black athlete. Even as heterosexual behavior in sports became headline news in the twentieth century, homosexuality remained hidden in the shadows until the first female tennis players began coming out in the 1980s. The chapter concludes with the rise of the athlete as sex symbol over the past three decades.

Pseudonormalization of the Typical Electrocardiography Repolarization Pattern of a Black Athlete

2018 ◽  
Vol Publish Ahead of Print ◽  
Author(s):  
Mina Dehghani Mohammadabadi ◽  
Winnie Chan ◽  
Pavel Antiperovitch ◽  
Ifrah Abdirahman ◽  
Benedict Glover ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Black Athlete
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