KIN 249: Lecture 7.1
Table of Contents
- Lecture 7.1: Race, Science & Sport
- Objectives
- Opening Questions
- Race
- MYTH: Race is clearly defined
- Race?
- Race and Science
- Tuskegee Experiment
- Tuskegee Syphilis Study
- Recent Research
- Human Genome Project
- Why Science?
- MYTH: Blacks are better athletes
- Myths Identified by Giulianotti (64)
- Challenges to the MYTH
- MYTH: Systematic racism has been eradicated
- What this myth masks . . .
- The Mascot Issue . . .
- Michigan Coalition Against Racism in Sports
- Vanilla Dunk . . . Discussion Qs
- Sources
Text and Images from Slide
Tuskegee Experiment
CDC website about Tuskegee Syphilis Study
Hyperlinks
Lecture Notes
In the 1930s, scientists used "race" as a means to justify a study about the long-term effects of syphilis. 600 black men (399 w/ syphilis and 201 without the disease) were enrolled in the study. During the course of this study, it was discovered that penicillin would cure syphilis. But the study was not halted. The infected men were not offered the treatment; the scientists used them as a living experiment to see what were the long-term consequences of the disease. In fact, the study continued for 40 years, well into the 1970s. The result: many died, many more unknowingly infected their partners and children who also died.