Black Lives Matter: Race, Resistance, and Populist Protest. Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University, New York, NY. University instructors who attempt to adopt this course without proper attribution should expect to be contacted and reported to their Provost and/or the Department Chair at their home institution.

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It might give you 15 minutes of fame, but what about the rest of your life?īlack Lives Matter Syllabus is the intellectual property of instructor Frank Leon Roberts. It ain’t going to save your sister or children. But even if you won a medal, it ain’t going to save your momma. Carlos said,Ī lot of the athletes thought that winning medals would supersede or protect them from racism. Smith and Carlos’ famous gesture of resistance was part of an effort organized by amateur Black athletes who formed the Olympic Project for Human Rights. In 1968, John Carlos and Tommie Smith famously raised their fists in a Black Power salute, with Peter Norman in solidarity, on the Olympic medal stand. I know that I am a Black man in a white world.' Jackie Robinson wrote in his 1972 biography, 'Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs?' In 1967, Muhammad Ali refused to be inducted into the U.S. Kaepernick is the latest in a long line of athletes speaking out against injustice.

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