Under the Boards: The Cultural Revolution in Basketball (review)

Goudsouzian, Aram

doi:10.1353/ams.0.0158

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“…I chose Kareem as my focal student because of the nuanced and consistent threads running through our conversations, his essays, and the interview. I then also retrieved the peer-reviewed article “Bill Russell and the Basketball Revolution” (Goudsouzian, 2006), which Kareem cited heavily in his paper.…”

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“…After classroom-based data generation, I coded Kareem’ s essay and used the codes to tailor questions to him in the semi-structured interview protocol and to recode field notes, memos, and the scholarly article he quoted frequently in his writing (Goudsouzian, 2006). After the interview, I used the initial themes from Kareem’s responses to code the transcript of the focal classroom conversation.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…During Freedom Summer, Russell led basketball clinics for Mississippi youth and publicized 12 unsolved murders in Mississippi. He was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1975 and received a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011 (Goudsouzian, 2006; Russell & Branch, 1979). He considers himself a civil rights activist; at the time of writing, it was the first descriptor listed on his Twitter profile, and during Black History Month 2019, he sported a Colin Kaepernick jersey in solidarity with the racial justice activist and former NFL quarterback.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Russell also, in Kareem’s estimation, “personified the goals of the civil rights movement by integrating the NBA” (Student work). His essay echoed Goudsouzian’s (2006) description of Russell as an ambassador who had “accepted a responsibility to represent the entire African American race, project humble dignity and patriotic enthusiasm” (Student work). Although Russell was not assassinated (and is still living at the time of writing), Kareem saw him as a martyr because “he still got the Jim Crow treatment in the South,” regardless of his remarkable success.…”

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“…Sources to Privilege the Specific Narrative. Kareem appeared to master the specific narrative of the Movement, appropriate it, and incorporate it into his construction with the help of sources like the article “Bill Russell and the Basketball Revolution” (Goudsouzian, 2006) and the principal’s comments. The article proved a central source throughout Kareem’s essay.…”

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“How every Black man should be”: Historical narrative construction as identity rearticulation

Castro

2023

The Journal of Social Studies Research

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This case study is a sociocultural analysis of how Kareem, a young Black man, both constructed a historical narrative and rearticulated two of his racialized identities. Kareem carried out two mediated actions. In the first, he incorporated cultural tools from the classroom—the schematic narrative template of racial progress and the specific narrative of the Movement—to support his thesis that NBA legend Bill Russell advanced the Civil Rights Movement. In the second, he positioned Bill Russell as a model Black man, drawing on cultural tools forged from his self-identification, his awareness of the racialization of Black men, and his desire to articulate a positive image of them. Data include field notes, audio-recorded conversation, written work, and an interview. The paper concludes with implications of this study for K-12 educators, teacher educators, and researchers: (1) that students’ racialized identities and experiences are cultural tools that can intersect with disciplinary learning; (2) that racialization includes non-racial identities and practices; and (3) that history/social studies curriculum and instruction can facilitate students’ analyses of how narratives function in the learning of the past.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%