By Jill Yesko, University Relations
Contact: (336) 334-5371
Posted 4-1-08
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Three top African American women athletes, sprinter Marion Jones, hurdler Perdita Felicien and tennis star Serena Williams, have faced challenges because of their race and sex.
Sports have historically been a public arena where social dramas have been played out, particularly as they pertain to African American women. A lecture by Dr. Delia Douglas, a visiting scholar in the Women’s and Gender Studies and the African American Studies Programs, will address the linkages between sports, gender, race and femininity.
Douglas’ talk, titled “Black Female Athlete Seeks Tender Loving Care: Marion, Serena, Perdita, Where is the Love?,” will be presented at Tuesday, April 15, at 4 p.m. in the Kirkland Room, EUC. The public is welcome at no charge.
Douglas is the first visiting scholar appointed in both the Women’s and Gender Studies and the African American Studies Programs at UNCG. Her research includes work in critical race theory, cultural analysis of bodies, power and pedagogy.
She received a PhD in sociology from the University of California at Santa Cruz. Douglas is a research associate on the Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management at the University of Manitoba.
The event is co-sponsored by the Women’s and Gender Studies Program and the African American Studies Program.
For more information contact Carole Lindsey-Potter in Women’s and Gender Studies at (336) 334-5673, or visit www.uncg.edu/wms.
