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Learning from the Public Sector: Re-Balancing the Bargaining Power in Major League Sports
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Episode 41: Ali (2001) (Guest: Dave Zirin)
No full textMuhammad Ali is widely recognized as one of the greatest athletes of all-time and one of the most important figures of the 20th century. In addition to his long and celebrated career as a boxer and three-time heavyweight champion of the world, Ali changed the conversation about race, religion, and politics in America. Ali’s refusal to be inducted into the U.S. military during the Vietnam War on religious grounds—a profound act of resistance that resulted not only in Ali’s three-plus-year exile from professional boxing, but also a criminal conviction and five year-prison sentence that Ali almost had to serve until it was reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court—represented a pivotal moment of the 1960s. Ali has been the subject of numerous books and documentary films, including the Oscar-winning When We Were Kings (1996) and The Trials of Muhammad Ali (2013). He is also the subject of the 2001 Hollywood biopic, Ali (co-written and directed by Michael Mann and starring Will Smith as Ali), which focuses on the ten-year period from Ali’s capture of the heavyweight crown from Sonny Liston in 1964 to Ali’s fight against George Foreman in Zaire in 1974 (the famed “Rumble in the Jungle”). Once a sharply polarizing figure, Ali became one of the most celebrated and eulogized individuals in America, whose rich, if not incomparable, legacy reverberates around the world today.
Guest: Dave Zirin
Dave Zirin is the sports editor at The Nation magazine. He also hosts Edge of Sports Television on The Real News Network and the Edge of Sports podcast. Dave is the author of eleven books, including Jim Brown: Last Man Standing and two books about Mohammed Ali: Muhammad Ali Handbook, which surveys Ali’s career, and What\u27s My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States, which looks at Ali and sports and resistance in the United States. Dave has been called “the best sportswriter in the United States,” by the New York Times icon Robert Lipsyte. He has spent his career probing the intersection of sports, politics, and society.
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction2:22 Formative experiences 5:00 From Cassius Clay to Muhammad Ali10:26 Opposition to the Vietnam draft13:16 Ali’s loss of his prime years15:42 The broader significance of Ali’s opposition to induction18:08 Ali’s legal challenges and the U.S. Supreme Court22:48: The Fight of the Century24:06 From a symbol of resistance to reconciliation27:50 Becoming a global icon: The Rumble in the Jungle35:30 Ali and Howard Cosell 36:57 Ali and Malcolm X41:08 Some problems of the Ali biopic44:12 Ali’s post-boxing career47:53 Sports and resistance: Ali\u27s legacy
Further Reading:
Hauser, Thomas, Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times (1991)
Kindred, Dave, Sound and Fury: Two Powerful Lives, One Fateful Friendship (2006)
Lederman, Marty, “The story of Cassius Clay v. United States,” SCOTUSBlog (June 8, 2016)
Lipsyte, Robert, Free to Be Muhammad Ali (1978)
Marqusee, Mike, Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties (2017)
Remnick, David, King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero (1998)
Zirin, Dave, Muhammad Ali Handbook (2007)
Zirin, Dave, The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World (2022)https://scholarship.shu.edu/law-on-film-s03/1010/thumbnail.jp
Parent/Stakeholder, Practitioner, and Teacher Perception of Applied Behavior Analysis as Influenced by Social Media
No full textThe current study was conducted to investigate individuals’ perceptions of ABA as influenced by social media. A survey that included videos selected from TikTok, a social media platform, was provided to parents/stakeholders of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), practitioners/employees of ABA (BCBAs, RBTs, etc.), and teachers. Participants were acquired using recruitment posts on TikTok and Facebook, through email, and by word-of-mouth/referral. 58 participants in total fully completed the survey. The survey was conducted using Qualtrics and included 32 questions and eight TikTok videos. The results showed that parents/stakeholders’, practitioners’, and teachers’ opinions of ABA were not influenced by the posts on social media (i.e., TikTok) included in this study. These participants also reported using various social media platforms daily, with almost half of them also reporting that they see posts regarding ABA on social media without searching for it. The lack of change in opinion about ABA reported by the participants should be noted, especially considering research which suggests that one’s real-life perceptions may often be shaped by content posted on social media and can subsequently impact one’s behavior offline. Participants also reported that they felt the opinions of others would be changed as a result of watching the selected videos, although they reported their own perception would not. Discussion of these differences in perception of perception change and additional survey data are provided. Both limitations and future research are suggested at the conclusion of this study
DIPL 6180 WB Comparative Foreign Policy
No full textThis course examines leading theoretical approaches to the study of foreign policy and their application to a variety of states and issue areas. The goal of this course is to provide students with an understanding of the key concepts necessary to address the fundamental question of foreign policy analysis: how do states define and pursue their national interests in international affairs? During the semester, we will explore some of the key debates in foreign policy analysis. Do differences in the characteristics of states (large versus small, democratic versus authoritarian, industrialized versus developing) lead to differences in their foreign policies? Or are the important differences not between countries but within them according to issue areas, for example security versus human rights policy? Students will have an opportunity to evaluate these debates for themselves through a series of case studies.
In addition to providing students with substantive knowledge of foreign policy, this class also aims to hone students’ analytical, writing, and oral communication skills, all of which are key student learning objectives of the School of Diplomacy. The ability to analyze international events from a variety of perspectives is a critical skill when attempting to understand why foreign leaders adopted a certain course of action and why other states respond as they do. Communication skills are important to all post-Seton Hall professional endeavors. Writing helps students improve their ability to relate evidence to argument. Oral communication skills are necessary not only to convey information, but also to persuade others of your interpretation of an issue, a critical negotiation skill.
A guideline for writing effective essays can be found in the information section of the class Canvas site. A list of academic resources at SHU, including information on the writing center, is available in the same place
DIPL 2109 AA Institutions of Global Governance
No full textThe focus and aim of this Course – DIPL 2109: Institutions of Global Governance – is to understand the concept of Global Governance from the vantage point of International Organizations. Global governance, central to international relations, refers to the loose framework of global regulation – both institutional and normative – that constrains conduct and attempts to maintain order.
When we speak of order, we need to specify order for whom – states, peoples, groups, or individuals. Order may denote any regular or discernible pattern of relationships that are stable over time or may additionally refer to a condition that allows certain goals to be achieved