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Kaepernick Flips the Script: Empowering the Silenced Black Athlete

Brackett, LaToya (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2017)

Colin Kaepernick, former quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, committed no crime, but created an uproar within the United States of America after he took the conscious choice to sit (later kneel) during the National ...
Athletic Disobedience: Providing a Context for Analysis of Colin Kaepernick’s Protest

Rorke, Tom; Copeland, Adam (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2017)

The interface between sport and political protest is not a new phenomenon. New iterations and new debates have arisen recently. Colin Kaepernick, backup quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, found a powerful and ...
Zola Budd and the Political Pawn

Sailors, Pam R. (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2017)

The attitude toward athletes engaging in political speech has varied over time, with activism often discouraged, but encouraged on rare occasions. The paper seeks to reconcile the two conflicting positions through proposing ...
El deportista político ¿o politizado? El caso de Colin Kaepernick

Pérez Triviño, José Luis; López Frías, Francisco J. (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2017)
An Argument against Athletes as Political Role Models

Klein, Shawn E. (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2017)

A common refrain in and outside academia is that prominent sports figures ought to engage more in the public discourse about political issues. This idea parallels the idea that athletes ought to be role models in general. ...
The Revival of Athlete Activism(s): Divergent Black Politics in the 2016 Presidential Election Engagements of LeBron James and Colin Kaepernick

Marston, Steve (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2017)

In the fall of 2016, LeBron James and Colin Kaepernick stood as two of the most visible figures in the recent revival of Black sport-activism. It is perhaps inevitable, then, that both men engaged in that season’s Presidential ...