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1. Affiliation: College of Education & Allied Professions, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC, USA
Abstract
Summary
Students from a regional comprehensive rural university were completing a challenge course activity as part of a graduate course under the auspices of team building. During the “Tarzan Swing” activity, where all participants move from one location to another by swinging on a rope, the team thought long and hard about how to support members with different physical abilities and body types, accounting for diverse strengths, weaknesses, and various fears related to accomplishing the task. One team member was reluctant to participate and her colleagues immediately started offering encouragement. The facilitator and professor also joined in the support discourse. What we all failed to recognize in the moment was that a group of white peers (fellow students), at the encouragement of two white men in power (the professor and facilitator), pushed a Black woman to swing from a tree on a rope with a loop on the end, in the middle of the woods in the rural American South.
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