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Jun 6, 2020 · Sharon Schaffer delivered a powerful speech before joining the city of Santa Monica for a paddle out in memory of black lives lost to police brutality. #Blac...
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Aug 31, 2021 · Sharon Schaffer, the first Black woman to become a pro surfer, doing tai chi at Venice Beach, Calif. Ms. Schaffer spoke to a group of surfers in 2020 about racism: “It’s been a battle to ...
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Three weeks of protests over Floyd's death have been a time of atonement for many white Americans. Surfing has a lot to atone for. The sport in a rapidly diversifying U.S. is still seen as predominantly white despite its origins in Polynesia. Historian Isaiah Helekunihi Walker of Brigham Young University-Hawaii said the state's colonizers and their...
As Hollywood's infatuation with surfing drew legions to the beach in the '60s, many surfers headed to the nonwhite world for uncrowded waves. The mid-'60s film "The Endless Summer" exposed a vision of the surfer as a laid-back transient but also as a conquerer from the West who had the means to treat foreign lands as a playground. Scott Laderman, a...
Through the 1960s and into the '70s, surfing was a somewhat libertarian endeavor marked by long hair, marijuana use and a wayward spirit. Keith Plocek, a University of Southern California assistant professor who has taught surf journalism, said the predominant image of a surfer is a "free spirit" for whom the responsibilities of life "can't hold me...
In the 1980s and '90s, the Los Angeles coastline was home to the Mexican Surf/Skate Association and the Black Surfing Association. In the Venice neighborhood, surfing culture collided with hip-hopas locals dressed like cholos and spray-painted Chicano-style graffiti in the name of keeping out nonresidents. Home-bred surfers sometimes hazed white ou...
Jun 4, 2021 · I remember sitting on the beach, staring at the waves. I was the only girl, let alone Black person, with a board. I grew up in a biracial family in Capistrano Beach, Calif. We were among the ...
Jun 10, 2020 · Sharon Schaffer – who is considered to be the first African American female pro surfer, along with being a stunt double in films like The Blues Brothers (1980), Kindergarten Cop (1990), and ...
Awesome interview with black women surfers Sharon Schaffer, Mary Mills, and GiGi Lucas on the True Conversation podcast by Volcom
