Victoria Jackson is a sports historian and Clinical Assistant Professor of History in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. Jackson writes and speaks about the intersection of sport and society, exploring how the games we play (and watch) tell us much about the communities – local, national, and global – in which we live. Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Slate, Letras Libres, Epoca, and The Independent, and she is a frequent podcast, radio, TV, and documentary film commentator on sport and society.
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“These communities are still dealing with ongoing legacies of colonization—poverty, depression, alcohol and drug and domestic abuse...[these images are] attached to this longer history of ideas about savagery””
