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Serena Williams is an American professional tennis player who is regarded as one of the most dominant players in the sport with a total of 23 Grand Slam singles titles. Along with her sister Venus, the two have been leaders in speaking out on gender and racial pay discrimination in the sport.

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Serena Williams and (the Perception of) Violence: Intersectionality, the Performance of Blackness, and Women’s Professional Tennis

Using intersectionality as an interpretive framework, we aim to show how Serena fits within the social structure of tennis which was created within the white, upper-class social milieu.

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Kristi Tredway
2019
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Serena Williams: How Black Women Can Close the Pay Gap

Black women are 37 cents behind men in the pay gap—in other words, for every dollar a man makes, black women make 63 cents.

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Serena Williams
2017
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The Greatest: Serena Williams—An Icon Who Broke Barriers and Shattered Records

“The cycles of poverty, discrimination and sexism,” she wrote in 2018, “are much, much harder to break than the record for grand slam titles.”

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Andy Bull
2020
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The Meaning of Serena Williams

There is a belief among some African-Americans that to defeat racism, they have to work harder, be smarter, be better.

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Claudia Rankine
2015
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