Race, Gender, and Culture
Explore the historical legacy of baseball’s impact on race, gender, and culture in this insightful course. Discover how the sport led both desegregation and segregation, and its unique role in providing opportunities for women during wartime. Uncover the virtues and flaws of baseball through an engaging exploration of its complex history.
This course will explore baseball through the lenses of race, gender, and culture. For good and for ill, baseball has been at the forefront of how the United States has dealt with these issues. Does baseball leading the way with desegregation negate that the sport was at the forefront of segregation with its Gentlemen’s Agreements? What is the historical legacy of baseball providing opportunities for women during wartime, in a way that other North American professional sports leagues did not? These are some of the ideas that this course will explore as it shows baseball’s virtues and flaws.
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