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Disclaimer: This assignment should be done by somebody who has already read one of the novels listed below and by someone who has taken Sports and Race classes before.Overview:For this assignment, you will choose and read an outside text exploring a topic at the intersection of sports and race, ethnicity, culture, gender, colonialism, etc. After reading and synthesizing the text, you will be responsible for composing a critical analysis of your book through a brief paper.The idea here is that this will provide you with the opportunity to explore areas of particular interest to you that might go unexplored or only briefly considered in the content of our curriculum (a reality of the nature of coursework in large classes).Keep in mind both that your paper is a critical analysis, delving into how concepts we have been discussing, and other questions of race, ethnicity, colonialism, and equity, played out in the particular content of your chosen text, and what they mean for sports-involved life in the 21st century. In short, this is not a summary of your chosen text (i.e. just going over the plot/content), nor a review (what you liked/didn’t like).Assignment Logistics:Once you have read our chosen book, you may want to do some additional reading and research as appropriate (i.e. Are there new concepts you need to look up to fully understand the text?; Did the arguments hinge on other texts you should familiarize yourself with?; If this is a historical text or dated memoir, how have things changed since it was written, and who else has explored this topic?), and then prepare your paper.In it, you should:Share a BRIEF summary of content, ideas, findings, and arguments in the text, NOT a review of the entire plot/narrative,Discuss the way AT LEAST 3-5 key course concepts are present in the text, offering your analysis and critical assessment of how they are examined/under-examined by the author/text (i.e. Not opinion, but analysis: What were astute analyses/observations? What was missing from the book’s analysis/conclusions? Were there problematic or concerning elements?),Identify any recent research, extensions, or current events that connect to your text, and,Report on key takeaways and discuss the implications/lessons this text has for your sporting-involved lives (i.e. What does reading this text make me think about for the future?)TitleAuthorGeneral TopicThings the Make White People UncomfortableMichael BennettFootball; Black AthletesBrazil’s Dance with the Devil (Updated Olympics Edition): The World Cup, the Olympics, and the Fight for DemocracyDave ZirinOlympics; Latin American Sports; ColonialismDragon HoopsGene Luen YangBasketball; Youth sports; Multiracial contextsThe John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment that Changed the WorldDave Zirin & John CarlosTrack; Civil Rights EraSilent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie SmithTommie SmithTrack; Civil Rights EraRedemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the 60’sMike Marquese & Dave ZirinBoxing; Civil Rights EraNot the Triumph but the Struggle: 1968 Olympics and the Making of the Black AthleteAmy BassOlympics; Civil Rights EraThe Revolt of the Black AthleteHarry EdwardsBlack Athletes; Civil Rights EraRace, Culture, and the Revolt of the Black Athlete: The 1968 Olympic Protests and Their Aftermath Douglas HartmannOlympics; Black Athletes; Civil Rights EraForty Million Dollar SlavesWilliam C. RhodenFootball; Black AthletesWe Will Win the DayLouis MooreBlack Athletes; Civil Rights EraShut Out: A Story of Race and BaseballHoward BryantBaseball; Racial DividesBefore the Eyes of the World: Mexico and the 1968 OlympicsKevin WitherspoonLatin American Sports; OlympicsBallers of the New SchoolThabiti LewisBasketball; Black AthletesSoccer in Sun and ShadowEduardo GaleanoSoccer; Latinx Athletes; ColonialismThe New Face of BaseballTime WendelBaseball; Latinx AthletesFutboleraBrenda ElseySoccer; Gender; Latinx AthletesFútbol in the ParkDavid TrouilleSoccer; Latinx culture; migrationThe Sports GeneDavid EpsteinGeneral; Racial DividesNot a Game: Allen IversonKent BabbBasketball; Black AthletesA Place on the Team: Triumph and Tragedy of Title IXWelch SuggsGender; GeneralFriday Night LightsH.G. BissingerFootball; Whiteness; Racial DividesThe Unlevel Playing FieldDavid WigginsBlack AthletesIndentured: The Exploitation of College AthletesJoel NoceraNCAA/College athletesThird and a Mile: History of the Black QuarterbackWilliam C. RhodenFootball; Black AthletesUnforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack JohnsonGeoffrey C. WardBoxing; Black AthletesThe Great White Hopes: The Quest to Defeat Jack JohnsonGraeme KentBoxing; WhitenessThe World’s Fastest Man: The Life of Major TaylorMichael KranishCycling; Black AthletesBuried in the Sky: The Story of the Sherpa’s on K2’s Deadliest DayPeter Zuckerman & Amanda PadoanMountaineering/Climbing; ColonialismLife and Death on Mt. EverestSherry OrtnerMountaineering/Climbing; ColonialismEddie Would Go: The Story of Eddie AikauStuart Holmes ColemanSurfing; ColonialismWaves of Resistance: Surfing and History in Hawai’iIsaiah Helekunihi WalkerSurfing; ColonialismWelcome to Paradise, Now Go to HellChas SmithSurfing; ColonialismOne Goal: A Coach, a Team, and the Game that Brought a Divided Town TogetherAmy BassSoccer; Black Athletes; Racial DividesI Fight for a Living: Boxing and Black Manhood 1880-1915Louis MooreBoxing; Black Athletes; GenderThe Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, & the Politics of PatriotismHoward BryantBlack Athletes; Civil rights; sport & politicsPlaying While White: Privilege and Power On and Off the FieldDavid LeonardWhiteness; Sport & politics; GeneralUntil it Hurts: America’s Obsession with Youth Sports and how it harms our KidsMark HymanYouth Sports; Cultural CapitalDarwin’s Athletes: How Sport Has Damaged Black America & Preserved the Myth of RaceJohn HobermanBlack Athletes; Racial dividesGloryland: A NovelShelton JohnsonBlack History; National ParksBlack Faces White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship between African Americans to the Great OutdoorsCarolyn FinneyBlack Athletes; Outdoor Sports; National ParksTrace: Memory, History, Race, and the American LandscapeLauret SavoyColonialism; Outdoor sports; HistoryOut of Thin Air: Running wisdom & magic from above the clouds in EthiopiaMichael CrawleyRunning/ athletics; Colonialism