After reading Pamela Grundy’s Learning to Win: Sports, Education, and Social Change in Twentieth-Century North Carolina, write a 4-6 page paper in response to the following prompt: In the epilogue, Grundy calls attention to “the connections between athletics and the dynamic process by which North Carolinians—and Americans in general—have made and remade their social institutions and themselves.”
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After reading Pamela Grundy’s Learning to Win: Sports, Education, and Social Change in Twentieth-Century North Carolina, write a 4-6 page paper in response to the following prompt:
In the epilogue, Grundy calls attention to “the connections between athletics and the dynamic process by which North Carolinians—and Americans in general—have made and remade their social institutions and themselves.” She continues, “A century of athletic endeavor charts a complex web of interactions, illuminating the many ways that sports have both reflected and influenced the society surrounding them” (Grundy, 295-296).
How did sports “both reflect and influence” North Carolina society from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s? How could we see sport as mirroring but also pushing social change for four groups: white men, black men, white women, and black women? Be sure to speak to change over time—in what respects do we see ideas that change or remain over time? Use stories to illustrate your ideas. We’ll broaden the definition of “story” to include: a story (example: McLendon’s NCC team on the bus in West Virginia), a process (example: school desegregation), an institution (example: the Dixie Classic in Reynolds Coliseum), or an opportunity (example: textile mill or high school basketball for women).