March 30, 2021 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE “Policing Black Athletes: Racial Disconnect in Sports” Vernon L. Andrews, Ph.D. Imprint: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. Price: $64.95 | Pages: 266 | ISBN-13: 978-1433167874 Media contacts: Pati Navalta, pati@navaltamedia.com | Cicero Estrella, cicero@navaltamedia.com “POLICING BLACK ATHLETES” EXPLORES HOW SPORTING ARENA HAS BECOME ONE OF THE LAST BATTLEFIELDS…
I like sports. Many people do. I have stories from my youth, just like you do. Let’s converse about what many learned about sports in working-class communities as an analogy for our current state of presidential politics. Basically, many of us have seen this script before when battling for supremacy as kids playing pickup sports.…
Dear New Zealand: We need your help. We’ve got a squatter! I’ll tell you more about McDonald in a minute. But first, let me say that I miss you. I miss Canterbury, and Christchurch, and the Crusaders and the All Blacks. I want to give you an update on what’s been going on in the…
I’ve had enough. All Black people have had enough. I imagine white people are tired of Black protests, too. Some choose to join us. Others look on and comment, “They are destroying their own neighborhoods. They are animals! No wonder cops kill them!” The unrest in our American streets is after more unjustifiable homicides by our…
Below is a discussion of social privilege — and life without it. Policing Black Athletes: Racial Disconnect in Sports, is my forthcoming book where I work hard to lay out for folks the pathway that leads us to where we are in sport and society — and a way to social justice. But first, the…
The majority of Black men over the age of 40 have a cop-biography. This is our personal history of police altercations that have left mental scar tissue. We are not “victims;” we are the walking wounded.But not all of us are dead, like Rayshard Brooks, Walter Scott, Sandra Bland, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and the…
I’d prefer not calling it White Privilege, because I’m Black — and I want it too. But funny, regardless of how much I “act” American, I still can’t seem to get enough college degrees (4, and counting) to purchase me some privilege. How did we get here? I’m dropping an excerpt from my forthcoming book, “Policing Black…
Excerpt from the book, Policing Black Athletes: Racial Disconnect in Sports, (Peter Lang Publishers) As we approach the September start of the NFL I’ve been wondering how players will protest, if at all. I’m guessing yes. Both basketball and baseball have come back strong with Black Lives Matter patches, emblems and commercials. Given that this…
Part I I remember being taught about manifest destiny in school. The tone of the discussion was like a master story-teller sitting down to tell the kids how the world came to be, how America fought for freedom from tyranny, and how we would spread that love of freedom westward into new territory that could…
To read Part I of this series, click on the link below. CULTURAL MANIFEST DESTINY AND ELIMINATING THE CONFEDERATE SYMBOLS OF PAIN Part II Here is the section of my forthcoming book on the specific matter of Native Team names and why both Black and White athletes have accepted this. Black Lives Matter lobbies for…