{"id":488,"date":"2023-02-21T16:03:38","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T16:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-as.vanderbilt.edu\/communication-studies\/?p=488"},"modified":"2026-03-30T16:30:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T16:30:53","slug":"dr-john-sloop-writes-about-the-cultivation-of-diversity-in-mls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/communication-studies\/2023\/02\/21\/dr-john-sloop-writes-about-the-cultivation-of-diversity-in-mls\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. John Sloop writes about the cultivation of diversity in MLS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/communication-studies\/bio\/john-sloop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Sloop<\/a>\u00a0recently published an essay in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Conversation<\/a>\u00a0about the cultivation of diversity in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Major League Soccer<\/a>. Sloop traces how apartheid, racism, and the superstar Pel\u00e9 all contributed, in different ways, to this development. You can read the full essay here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-apartheid-european-racism-and-pele-helped-cultivate-a-culture-of-diversity-in-us-soccer-that-endures-into-the-mls-197172\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How apartheid, European racism and Pel\u00e9 helped cultivate a culture of diversity in US soccer that endures into the MLS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor\u00a0John Sloop\u00a0recently published an essay in\u00a0The Conversation\u00a0about the cultivation of diversity in\u00a0Major League Soccer. Sloop traces how apartheid, racism, and the superstar Pel\u00e9 all contributed, in different ways, to this development. You can read the full essay here: How apartheid, European racism and Pel\u00e9 helped cultivate a culture of diversity in US soccer that endures&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":39,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13,3],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2023\/03\/22140402\/Spotlight-Sloop.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/communication-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/communication-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/communication-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/communication-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/communication-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/communication-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":703,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/communication-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/communication-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/communication-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/communication-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/communication-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}