Theresa Runstedtler is Associate Professor of History and Critical Race, Gender, and Cultural Studies at American University. She is the author of Jack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner: Boxing in the Shadow of the Global Color Line (UC Press, 2012) and, this year, Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation That Saved the Soul of the NBA (Bold Type Books, 2023). She is also a former member of the Toronto Raptors Dance Pak and has worked in public relations for a national sports network.
On this episode, Dr. Runstedtler joins Johanna Mellis and Nathan Kalman-Lamb to explain the history of the NBA's 1970s and how an era of anti-racist athletic labor struggle came to be discursively distorted as a 'dark age' for the professional basketball league. This wide-ranging conversation also covers cultural studies as an epistemological and methodological framework for understanding sport, youth sport as a site of child labor, dance as sport/labor, and so much more.
You can find Dr. Runstedtler on Twitter @DrTRunstedtler.
Episode 21: Hoop Dreams, High Flying Bird, and Sporting Blackness on Screen with Samantha Sheppard
Episode 20: Communist vs. Capitalist Sport with Johanna Mellis
Episode 19: Behind the UNC Scandals with Jay Smith and Ted Tatos
Episode 18: Edgy Times with Dave Zirin
Episode 17: Beyond Diversity and Inclusion in Sport with Shireen Ahmed
Episode 16: Racism, Rebellion, and the Sport Media Complex with Hemal Jhaveri
Episode 15: Racism and Resistance with Michael Bennett
Episode 14: On The Last Dance with Louis Moore
Episode 13: The Ethics of Football and the Concussion Industrial Complex
Episode 12: Blame Canada
Episode 11: Bootstraps and Baseball
Episode 10: Fans All Day with Andrew Stoeten
Episode 9: Life in the W (and Around the World) with Elizabeth Williams
Episode 8: The Lie of Amateurism
Episode 7: Fandom, Work, and Academic Precarity
Episode 6: Not Your Average Athlete Interview
Episode 5: Food Insecurity and College Athletics
Episode 4: What's Wrong with the Olympics?
Episode 3: The Truth About College Sport
Episode 2: Athletic Labor and COVID-19
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