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Kaepernick's Kneel: Performance, Protest, and the National Football League
- Callaloo
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 41, Number 3, Summer 2018
- pp. 4-17
- 10.1353/cal.2018.0049
- Article
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Abstract:
By analyzing Colin Kaepernick's kneel using performance theory, we can unlock a more in-depth meaning to his protest and dig into the way freedom is accrued by Black bodies inside the athletic arena of the NFL.