Sport Conversations for Change Webinar: We are Family: Sport, Politics, Culture and the Black Family

 

Chair & Associate Professor in the Department of African American Studies @San Jose State University

Travis D. Boyce is the department chair and associate professor of African American Studies as well as the director of the Ethnic Studies Collaborative at San Jose State University. His areas of research interests are contemporary African American history and popular culture. His worked appeared in edited collections and peer reviewed journals. His most recent work is an edited book titled Historicizing Fear: Ignorance, Vilification, and Othering (University Press of Colorado, 2020). Additionally, Dr. Boyce served as a guest editor for a special issue (Fashion, Style, Aesthetics, and Black Lives Matter) in Fashion, Style, and Popular Culture Journal.

 

Interim Department Chair & Professor in the Department of Health & Human Performance @University of Houston

Dr. Hawkins is a professor and interim chair at the University of Houston in the Department of Health and Human Performance. He is the author of several peer-reviewed articles and books including, The New Plantation: Black Athletes, College Sports, and Predominantly White NCAA Institutions; and co-author of Sport, Race, Activism, and Social Change: The Impact of Dr. Harry Edwards’ Scholarship and Service, The Athletic Experience at Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Past, Present, and Persistence, and Critical Race Theory: Black Athletic Sporting Experiences in the United States. His teaching and research contributions are in the areas of sociology of sport and cultural studies, sport management, and sport for development. He has published in several peer-reviewed journals, as well as, presented to learned societies in the area of sport studies (including sport management, sport history, and sport sociology).

 

Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology @Virginia Tech

Dr. Letisha Engracia Cardoso Brown is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Virginia Tech. Dr. Brown earned her B.A. in Africana Studies from the University of Northern Colorado, and her Master’s and PhD. in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin. Using a black feminist lens, Dr. Brown’s research focuses issues of social inequality broadly, including issues of race and racism through the lens of sports, social relationships and food, as well as black girlhoods. Dr. Brown’s work can be found in publications such as the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, the Ethnic Studies Review, the South African Review of Sociology, the Palgrave Handbook of Feminism and Sport, Leisure and Physical Education as well as the online publication The Shadow League. Dr. Brown teaches courses such as Race and Ethnicity, Sociology of Inequality, Race and Racism and Plantation Politics: The Black Sport Experience.