Sitting on the porch choppin’ it up. HipHop and sports “go hand in hand”: a rap session with Michael Eric Dyson, PhD
PMCID: PMC10448583
PMID:
Abstract
No abstract available
Full Text
The canon of traditional academia has gradually expanded in the last six decades. Since the Black Arts Movement exploded in 1965, African American literature has represented a challenge to the widely accepted Eurocentric narratives taught in American universities. Situated within the Black Power Movement, the artists and intellectuals in the Black Arts Movement aligned their music, literature, drama, and visual arts with the ideologies of Black self-determination, racial pride, economic empowerment, and the creation of political and cultural institutions (1). While the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s produced many artists and writers who focused their work on the political injustices of the time, Gates (2) specifically noted the Black Women's Literary Renaissance of the 1970s (i.e., Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Maya Angelou) as a key factor in broadening the validity of accepted academic narratives.
Since then, the legacy of the Black Arts Movement has made way for intellectuals in other fields to disrupt the center of traditional academia's Eurocentric narratives. In particular, as the revenue of college sports has increased, the field of sport sociology has exponentially grown to include Black perspectives. Sport sociologists have written scholarship through the prism of Black Americans to illustrate phenomena such as racial identity development (3–5), masculinity (6, 7), stereotypes (8–11), activism (12–14), academic reform (15–17), academic performance and achievement (18–21), religion (22, 23), and antideficit frameworks (24, 25). The rigorous study of sport sociology has created a space for academic credibility:
It is a thing of wonder to behold the various ways in which our specialties and the works we explicate and teach have moved, if not exactly from the margins to the center of the profession of literature, at least from defensive postures to a position of generally accepted validity (2, p. 11).
Each of the Black male professors featured in this documented dialog has made major contributions to Black literature and education. Both men continue to be recognized for their distinguished innovation through awards and fellowships (see Figure 1).
Sections
"[{\"pmc\": \"PMC10448583\", \"pmid\": \"\", \"reference_ids\": [\"B1\", \"B2\"], \"section\": \"Introduction\", \"text\": \"The canon of traditional academia has gradually expanded in the last six decades. Since the Black Arts Movement exploded in 1965, African American literature has represented a challenge to the widely accepted Eurocentric narratives taught in American universities. Situated within the Black Power Movement, the artists and intellectuals in the Black Arts Movement aligned their music, literature, drama, and visual arts with the ideologies of Black self-determination, racial pride, economic empowerment, and the creation of political and cultural institutions (1). While the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s produced many artists and writers who focused their work on the political injustices of the time, Gates (2) specifically noted the Black Women's Literary Renaissance of the 1970s (i.e., Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Maya Angelou) as a key factor in broadening the validity of accepted academic narratives.\"}, {\"pmc\": \"PMC10448583\", \"pmid\": \"\", \"reference_ids\": [\"B3\", \"B5\", \"B6\", \"B7\", \"B8\", \"B11\", \"B12\", \"B14\", \"B15\", \"B17\", \"B18\", \"B21\", \"B22\", \"B23\", \"B24\", \"B25\"], \"section\": \"Introduction\", \"text\": \"Since then, the legacy of the Black Arts Movement has made way for intellectuals in other fields to disrupt the center of traditional academia's Eurocentric narratives. In particular, as the revenue of college sports has increased, the field of sport sociology has exponentially grown to include Black perspectives. Sport sociologists have written scholarship through the prism of Black Americans to illustrate phenomena such as racial identity development (3\\u20135), masculinity (6, 7), stereotypes (8\\u201311), activism (12\\u201314), academic reform (15\\u201317), academic performance and achievement (18\\u201321), religion (22, 23), and antideficit frameworks (24, 25). The rigorous study of sport sociology has created a space for academic credibility:\"}, {\"pmc\": \"PMC10448583\", \"pmid\": \"\", \"reference_ids\": [\"B2\"], \"section\": \"\", \"text\": \"It is a thing of wonder to behold the various ways in which our specialties and the works we explicate and teach have moved, if not exactly from the margins to the center of the profession of literature, at least from defensive postures to a position of generally accepted validity (2, p. 11).\"}, {\"pmc\": \"PMC10448583\", \"pmid\": \"\", \"reference_ids\": [\"F1\"], \"section\": \"Background\", \"text\": \"Each of the Black male professors featured in this documented dialog has made major contributions to Black literature and education. Both men continue to be recognized for their distinguished innovation through awards and fellowships (see Figure\\u00a01).\"}]"
Metadata
"{\"section-at-acceptance\": \"The History, Culture and Sociology of Sports\"}"