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  • What has been the impact of the Washington Football Team's name change?

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    The year since the Washington Football Team retired its nickname has been a historically eventful one in terms of the use of Native American imagery in sports and elsewhere, said Jay Rosenstein, a Center for Advanced Study professor of media and cinema studies and an expert on the use of American Indian mascots in sports.

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  • Editor’s note:  To contact Jay Rosenstein, email jrosenst@illinois.edu.