Sport: Not Just Games

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Sport: Not Just Games

It takes about two minutes on UA campus to realize that we LOVE our sports teams -- football remains the kingpin but avid (if not crazed) fans exist in strong numbers for gynmnastics, softball, men's and women's basketball, all the way to our national championship golf teams! But what is it about sport that pulls out such strong emotions, pride, and endless t-shirt designs? Students in this section address sport as a power-laden, highly influential realm of social experience that touches on race, class, gender, sexuality, nationality, religion and more. If you know Alabama, you know that sport is never just a game...

NASCAR and Whiteness:
The Career of Wendell Scott

Chase Swims, whose family has run a dirt track racing business in northern Georgia for over three generations, investigated the first Black race car drivers. An excerpt of his paper is below:

Forgotten Heroes?
UA's First Black Football Players

Football. Alabama. It's like peanut butter and jelly right? However, very few places on our campus celebrate the first Black football players (or athletes in other sports) who broke the color barrier at UA.

Bear Bryant Museum link, little mention