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Attributions and Acknowledgments

Except where otherwise noted, the content in this Pressbooks was adapted by Dr. Andrew Cho, Tacoma Community College, licensed under a CC BY NC 4.0 license.

Original content created by Dr. Andrew Cho includes:

  • An additional Land Acknowledgement specific to Tacoma Community College
  • Statements emphasizing the TCC Sociology Program’s commitment to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
  • Statement proclaiming the TCC Sociology Program’s commitment to Anti-Racist curriculum, pedagogy, and practices
  • An Introduction section focused on the history and development of SOC 222 at TCC and the ideology for choosing The Ball is in Y(Our) Court: Social Change Through and Beyond Sport as the primary course textbook.
  • Some original figures/pictures from Andrew Cho’s personal experience in the world of sport.
  • Select additional readings focused on sociological studies on sport from the TCC Library Research databases

Content adapted by Dr. Andrew Cho includes:

  • This book was cloned and adapted from a pre-existing book, “The Ball is in Y(Our) Court: Social Change Through and Beyond Sport” by The students of KNPE 473 at Queen’s University, Fall 2020, edited by Mary Louise Adams, CC BY NC 4.0 license, at the following URL: https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/theballisinyourcourt

Acknowledgments for significant external sources used in this project:

  • Dix, A. (2019). “And 1” more piece of evidence of discrimination against Black basketball players. Howard Journal of Communications, 30(3), 211–229.
  • Spaaij, R. (2012). Beyond the playing field: Experiences of sport, social capital, and integration among Somalis in Australia. Ethnic & Racial Studies35(9), 1519–1538.
  • Nardinelli, C., & Simon, C. (1990). Customer racial discrimination in the market for memorabilia: The case of baseball. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 105(3), 575–595.
  • Green, J. P., Holtzapple, A. M., & McKinley, L. (2016). Examining gender equity in newspaper coverage of West-Central Ohio high school basketball games. The Ohio Journal of Science, 116(2), 9-20.
  • Ferrucci, P., Tandoc, J. . E. C., E. Painter, C., & Wolfgang, J. D. (2016). Foul ball: Audience-held stereotypes of baseball players. Howard Journal of Communications27(1), 68–84.
  • Pelechrinis, K. (2023). Quantifying implicit biases in refereeing using NBA referees as a testbed. Scientific Reports13(1), 1–11.
  • Yufei Wang. (2023). Exploring the relationship between social anxiety concerning appearance and the economic implications of TikTok’s beauty filters among female athletes in China. Journal of Sport Psychology / Revista de Psicología Del Deporte32(4), 198–202.
  • Duncan, S. C., Strycker, L. A., & Chaumeton, N. R. (2015). Sports participation and positive correlates in African American, Latino, and White girls. Applied Developmental Science19(4), 206–216.
  • Stone, J., Lynch, C. I., Sjomeling, M., & Darley, J. M. (1999). Stereotype threat effects on Black and White athletic performance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology77(6), 1213–1227.
  • Cuadros, P. (2011). We play too: Latina integration through soccer in the “New South”. Southeastern Geographer, 51(2), 227-241
  • DIG14279-096” photo by LBJ Library, Flickr, Public Domain Mark 1.0 license
  • “Dr. Andrew Cho, Hall of Fame Basketball Player Yao Ming, and NBA Executive Rich Cho” photo by Andrew Cho is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
  • “Pickleball Tournament Medal Podium” by Andrew Cho is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

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The Ball is in Y(Our) Court: Social Change Through and Beyond Sport Copyright © by Edited and adapted by Andrew Cho, Tacoma Community College and Originally created by the students of KNPE 473 at Queen's University, Fall 2020, edited by Mary Louise Adams is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.