Dr. Tracie Canada discusses on Scientific American the disproportional violence Black men experience in football

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Dr. Tracie Canada (Cul Ant) wrote on the “terrifyingly ordinary” nature of football’s violence which disproportionately affects Black men. She said that as a cultural anthropologist, she spent the last decade learning how Black college football players navigate the exploitation, racism, and anti-Blackness that are fundamental to its current system. Dr. Canada also questions the leagues, organizations, teams, coaches, spectators, and fans who benefit from their performance and expect them to tough it out when they get hurt and applaud them when they play through these injuries. Click to read more.