Protest Politics and Organized Resistance in Intercollegiate Athletics

• In Event: 75.018 - The 2020 Election and Beyond: Building a Collaborative "Politics of Higher Education" Research/Advocacy Agenda

Abstract

In 2015 at the University of Missouri, the Mizzou football team and coaching staff initiated a strike from participation in football activities in an act of solidarity against racial injustice on-campus. Still, the legacy of protest in intercollegiate athletics preceding and following the events at Mizzou indicate student-athlete’s participation in activism has not been uncommon. This chapter explores the contemporary relationship between protest and intercollegiate athletics and the challenges presented by existing structures of power in college sports.

Author

• Tomika L Ferguson, Center ofr Post Secondary Research