Redskins and Crackers: What’s In a Name?

Jared Ball iMWiL!, Media Studies

Veteran journalists and educators, Kevin Blackistone (Washington Post/University of Maryland) and Dave Zirin (journalist, author and host of Edge of Sports), discuss the flawed methodology of (and worse history behind) a recent poll claiming that “9/10” Native Americans are not offended by the term “redskins.” Redskins and Crackers: What's In a Name?Watch this video on…

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Sports Talk Radio and North American Apartheid

Jared Ball iMWiL!, Media Studies, Panels & Presentations

This was a presentation given at the Passing the Ball: Race and Sports conference at Temple University. In 1913 James Sullivan, the U.S. minister to the Dominican Republic said: “I deem it worthy of the Department’s notice that the American game of baseball is being played and supported here with great enthusiasm. The remarkable effect of this…

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