Basketball Camp

Hoopers w/ Critical Minds

Summer 2016

Kevin Santos
email: kevmichael29@gmail.com
website: hoopers.criticalminds.weebly.com
number: (209) 200-3604

Mission
Hoopers w/ Critical Minds is a summer basketball camp that utilizes basketball as a vehicle to develop
Critical Student-Athletes. By engaging the his/herstory of basketball through an Ethnic Studies lens, this
camp offers an opportunity for the youth to access language that can help name their realities. Campers
are able to build a vocabulary and various skills that can transcend to and through other spaces, especially
the classroom. This camp provides our youth an opportunity to build and develop agency through
reflection, responsive skill development and sustainable relationship building.
Vision
Coaches will work together with campers to build sustainable relationships with their minds, bodies,
communities and the ball. Each day campers and coaches will explore, interact, and dialogue on how
basketball has historically impacted various communities of color. The content will focus on the impacts
of basketball on Asian Americans and the Philippines as a way to challenge the black & white paradigm
that exists in the sport culture of the United States as well as work to dispel the model minority myth . As
campers and coaches learn about historical impacts of basketball, they will utilize praxis as a way to be
mindful when building relationships with and around the ball. Coaches will guide and mentor campers
through a process of responsive skill development. This process begins with self-assessment, research,
action plan, application, and reflection. The skills developed through the process are practiced in both the
classroom and on the court. Our camp will conclude with a culminating community event planned and
hosted by campers and coaches.
Learning Outcomes
As a result of this camp, campers should be able to:
Connect lived experiences to the his/herstory of basketball and engage its individual
meaning to various Asian American groups
Use concepts from an expanded vocabulary to name their realities through a critical lens
Use praxis a tool for responsive skill development

Practice mindfulness through sustainable relationship building with and around the ball
Attain double critical consciousness as a Critical Student-Athlete

Camp Expectations
Campers are expected to be a:
Hopeful Hooper:
Critical Hope
~Material: Use personal narrative to connect w/ other campers and coaches. Come to camp prepared
in order to effectively contribute to what is experienced at camp.
~Socratic: Understand on both the individual and collective level that you can either learn or lose.
~Audacious: Committing to just causes through hoops, both in and outside of our HCM community.
Consciously Collaborating w/:
Experience double critical consciousness by collective engagement in the his/herstory of basketball and
its relationship to various Asian American groups as a critical student-athlete.
Mindful Movements:
Strengthen the relationships between body & mind and barangay.

Camp Requirements & Evaluation

Attendance and Participation

20%

Reflections of a Critical Hooper

30%

Ball is Buhay

10%

Praxis?

15%

Hoopin for Hope

25%

Project/Assignment Descriptions
~Reflections of a Critical Hooper [Daily]
Campers will each receive a journal that will be used daily. This journal will aid in critical
stretching (a process by which campers dialogue about critical concepts while simultaneously
stretching their muscles), responding to journal prompts, engaging content within lesson plans

and self-reflecting throughout the process. This journal will be used to support other assigned
projects.

Ball is Buhay (BiB) [Week 1]

During the first week of camp, campers will be assigned barangays. Each barangay will be given
a circle-shaped canvas based on their responses to daily journal prompts for the week. Each day
campers will express their responses by collectively adding a layer of design to their canvas.
Each prompt will challenge campers to identify different relationships that they have developed.
Mondays prompt will focus on their relationship to basketball (Basketball is..). Tuesday will
focus on someone who has helped them develop a relationship with basketball (_____ has helped
me develop my relationship w/ basketball by..). Wednesday will focus on someone that you have
developed a relationship with through basketball (Basketball has helped me build my
relationship with _______). Each barangay will share their finished piece at the end of the week.
Praxis? [Week 2]
Throughout the week, students will collaborate with a coach and other barangay members to
assess a particular barangay need. The barangay will work together to develop a process of
responsive skill development through praxis. This process will take place throughout the week.
Campers will begin by identifying a particular skill that can be used by each barangay member or
a particular weakness that members of the barangay experience. Barangays will follow by using
drill work to strategize a way to strengthen the relationships between mind & body and barangay.
Hoopin for Hope [Week 3]
This culminating event will be held the Saturday of the third week. Barangays will collectively
decide on how to showcase their experiences at camp, build community through workshops,
various competitions and impact the larger community as a critical student-athlete.

Course Outline

Dates

Themes/Topics/Sources

Monday
10.01.16

-Introduction
-Roles and relationships
~Student & Athlete
~Mind & Body

Assignments

Due
Dates

~Ball is Buhay [1/4]

-1st Layer

10.02.16

~Critical Stretching
-Internalized

10.02.16

Critical Stretching [body & mind]

word:
-Critical
-Double
-Consciousness

-Interpersonal
-Institutionalized

Barangay Challenge:
~(BiB) Basketball is..
-Jeffrey M.R. Duncan-Andrade
What a Coach Can Teach a Teacher
Andrade, J. (2010). What a coach can teach a
teacher: Lessons urban schools can learn from a
successful sports program. New York: Peter Lang.

Tuesday
10.02.16

[His/herstory of Basketball]
-Origins of Basketball
Critical Stretching [body & mind]
word:
-Internalized
-Interpersonal
-Institutionalized

~Ball is Buhay [2/4]

-2nd Layer

10.03.16

10.03.16

~Critical Stretching
-kapwa

Barangay Challenge:
~(BiB) ________ has helped me develop my
relationship w/ basketball by..
-James Naismith
Naismith, J. (1996). Basketball: Its origin and
development (Bison Books ed.). Lincoln:
University of Nebraska Press.

Wednesday [His/herstory of Basketball]

-Basketball as.. SPORT
10.03.16
Critical Stretching [body & mind]
word:
-kapwa
Barangay Challenge:

~Ball is Buhay [3/4]

-3rd Layer
~Critical Stretching
-Race
-Exclusion

10.04.16
10.04.16

~(BiB) Basketball has helped me build my

relationship with _______..
-Dave Zirin
A Peoples History of Sports in the United States
Zirin, D. (2009). A people's history of sports in the
United States: 250 years of politics, protest,
people, and play. New York: New Press :.

Thursday
10.04.16

[His/herstory of Basketball]
-Basketball as..
Race + Exclusion
Critical Stretching [body & mind]
word:
-Race
-Exclusion

~Ball is Buhay [4/4]

-Presentation
~Critical Stretching
-Resistance
-Solidarity

10.05.16
10.05.16

Barangay Challenge:
~(BiB) Barangay Presentation
-Michael Omi & Howard Winant
Racial Formations in the United States
-Doug Merlino
Crossover: A Brief History of Basketball and Race,
from James Naismith to LeBron James

Friday
10.05.16

[His/herstory of Basketball]
-Basketball as..
Resistance + Solidarity
Praxis?
-Identify a skill that can be used by each
barangay member or a particular weakness
that members of the barangay can improve
Critical Stretching [body & mind]
word:
-Resistance

~Praxis?
-Identify skill or weakness
~Critical Stretching
-responsiveness

10.08.16
10.08.16

-Solidarity
Nicole A. Williams
Japanese-American basketball: Constructing
gender, ethnicity, and community
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA,
2010, 294 pages; 3434557

Monday
10.08.16

[Asian Americans & Basketball]

-Basketball as..
Class
-Praxis?
-Use selected skill/weakness to determine
what drills or exercises are necessary. Create
an action plan as well a way to measure initial
effectiveness.
-Measure to assess initial ability
-Perform action plan

~Critical Stretching
-Gender
-Femininity
-Masculinity

10.09.16

10.09.16

-Praxis?
-Swishes & Misses

Critical Stretching [body & mind]

word: responsiveness

-Dave Zirin
A Peoples History of Sports in the United States
Zirin, D. (2009). A people's history of sports in the
United States: 250 years of politics, protest,
people, and play. New York: New Press :.

Tuesday
10.09.16

[Asian Americans & Basketball]

Chinese experience in
SF Chinatown + Gender

-Praxis?
Adjust action plan according to swishes and
misses. Continue to carry out revitalized
action plan. Conclude with swishes and
misses.

~Critical Stretching

10.10.16

-Displacement

-Praxis?
-Swishes & Misses

10.10.16

Critical Stretching [body & mind]

word:
-Gender
-Femininity
-Masculinity
-Kathleen Yep
Outside the Paint: When Basketball Ruled at the
Chinese Playground
Yep, K.(2009). Outside the Paint: When Basketball
Ruled at the Chinese Playground. Philadelphia:
Temple University Press.
Kathleen S. Yep. (2010). Playing Rough and
Tough: Chinese American Women Basketball
Players in the 1930s and 1940s. Frontiers: A
Journal of Women Studies, 31(1), 123141.

Wednesday [Asian Americans & Basketball]

Japanese (WWII) + J-leagues
10.10.16
Critical Stretching [body & mind]
word: -Displacement

~Critical Stretching
-Racial hierarchy
-Praxis?
-Swishes & Misses

10.11.16
10.11.16

-Dustin Tokuji Hedani

Identity ballin : J-league basketball and its

impact on Japanese American identity

Thursday
10.11.16

[Asian Americans & Basketball]

Basketball League Politics

-J-league and the Philippines league politics.
Critical Stretching [body & mind]
word: -Racial hierarchy
Chin, Christina B.
Hoops, History, and Crossing Over: Boundary Making
and Community Building in Japanese American Youth
Basketball Leagues

~Critical Stretching
-Identity formation
-Praxis?
-Swishes & Misses

10.12.16
10.12.16

Friday
10.12.16

[Asian Americans & Basketball]

Identity through basketball
Critical Stretching [body & mind]
word: -Identity formation
-Praxis?
Measure the impacts of the action plan.

~Critical Stretching
-Colonization
-Praxis?
-Swishes & Misses

10.15.16
10.15.16

-Michael Cullinane
BASKETBALL AND CULTURE: A PROBLEM IN
PRIVATE TRANSITORY OWNERSHIP?
Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society, Vol. 3,
No. 1 (MARCH 1975), pp. 54-58

Monday
10.15.16

[Philippines + Basketball]
Basketball meets the
Philippines + Colonization

~Critical Stretching
-Imperialism

10.16.16

~Critical Stretching
Benevolent Assimilation

10.17.16

Critical Stretching [body & mind]

word: -Colonization

Bartholomew, R. (2010). Pacific rims:

Beermen ballin' in flip-flops and the
Philippines' unlikely love affair with
basketball. New York: New American Library.
-National Geographic Pinoy Hoops
~Ep. 1:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=wEX9uub_6RM]
~Ep. 2:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=jvTYKlTAS0Q]
~Ep. 3:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=0_YATdWElPM]

Tuesday
10.16.16

[Philippines + Basketball]
Basketball meets the
Philippines + Imperialization

Critical Stretching [body & mind]

word:
-Imperialism
-Nike Rise Philippines 2015
[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkZ_LEL
7F1WDUj5z0mx0YTw]

Wednesday [Philippines + Basketball]

10.17.16

Critical Stretching [body & mind]

word: Benevolent Assimilation

~Critical Stretching
-False Generosity

10.18.16

~Critical Stretching
-True Generosity

10.11.16

-Nike Rise Philippines 2015

[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkZ_LEL
7F1WDUj5z0mx0YTw]

Thursday
10.18.16

[Philippines + Basketball]
Critical Stretching [body & mind]
word:
-False Generosity
-Nike Rise Philippines 2015
[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkZ_LEL
7F1WDUj5z0mx0YTw]

Friday
10.19.16

Critical Stretching [body & mind]

word:
-True Generosity
-Coaches game
-Preparation for culminating event

Saturday
10.20.16

Culminating Event:
Hoopin for Hope

~Prepare for culminating

event.