Course on Race and College Sports Offered this Spring

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A new faculty-led Trinity College project, which examines the politics and histories of intercollegiate athletics and athletes, will include a Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies course this Spring.

“Race and the Business of College Sports” (GSF 290) is part of the new “Black in Blue: The Sports and Race Project” – a project that includes classes, public events, workshops and podcasts as it critically studies race and sports at Duke, within its geographic placement, and beyond.

“Race and the Business of College Sports” – taught by Jennifer Nash, Jean Fox O’Barr Professor of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, and Orin Starn, Professor of Cultural Anthropology – will look at Duke and sports in the context of Black Lives Matter, anti-Black violence and exploitation, gender, and athletes’ activism. The course is cross-listed with Gender, Cultural Anthropology (CULANTH 290), Economics (ECON 290), History (HISTORY 290), Sociology (SOCIOL 290) and Public Policy (PUBPOL 290).

Learn more about the course and the Black in Blue project.