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University of California Irvine Wk 6 Contentious Serena Williams Discussion

 

The sport of tennis has regularly promoted Serena Williams as a symbol of diversity and progress while simultaneously maintaining that her Blackness signifies “difference” in relation to the sport’s history and conventions. Given such iconic athletes as Althea Gibson, Arthur Ashe, and up-and-coming stars like Naomi Osaka and Coco Gauff, how/why is Serena still such a contentious figure?