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Radical History Review (2016) 2016 (125): 168–178.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Steven W. Thrasher In the United States, sports have provided a historic framework for perpetuating the social construction of black men as a threatening menace to public safety. At the same time, sports have also provided a framework for understanding how to control black men's bodies...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2016) 2016 (125): 1–12.
Published: 01 May 2016
...’ Introduction
Historicizing the Politics and Pleasure of Sport
The making of global culture owes much to sport. The Fédération Internationale
de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup, the Olympic Games, and other major
sporting events generate huge revenues, fill stadiums, attract billions...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2016) 2016 (125): 159–167.
Published: 01 May 2016
..., and the
Shifting Politics of Sport Media
The Case of Jimmy the Greek
Thomas P. Oates
In recent years, the National Football League (NFL), a marginal sport league
in most of the world but a vitally important source of financial profit and cultural
ideals in the United States, has undergone a quiet...
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Radical History Review (2016) 2016 (125): 187–198.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Peter Alegi; Amy Bass; Adrian Burgos, Jr.; Brenda Elsey; Martha Saavedra University courses on sport and society have increased exponentially over the past decade, motored by student interest and the acceptance of cultural studies in the academy. This online forum, organized and coordinated...
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Radical History Review (2016) 2016 (125): 199–205.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Glen Thompson Studies on swimming and surfing history are reviewed. They open up new perspectives on the relationship between politics, culture, and gender. These water sports can be seen historically as political and determined by local, national, and global conditions. Each study historicizes...
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Radical History Review (2016) 2016 (125): 179–186.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Jennifer Doyle “Wrestling Ideology” absorbs the insight of recent scholarship in martial arts studies in order to analyze feminist performance art grounded in combat sports. Anchored by an analysis of Jennifer Locke's performance video Match , this essay explores how, where the “street fight...
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Radical History Review (2016) 2016 (125): 13–34.
Published: 01 May 2016
... from the monopoly powers unique to the sports business but also from policy makers' increasing embrace of unconditional corporate welfare for firms throughout the economy. In addition, the article reveals the involvement of the sports business in expanded efforts within corporate America to use...
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Radical History Review (2016) 2016 (125): 55–73.
Published: 01 May 2016
...-administered leagues of black workers and sport administrators entertained crowds and provided ethnically diverse Zambians with a valuable opportunity to create new urban social networks, communities, and identities. Ordinary fans founded organized supporters' clubs that attempted to make coaches, club...
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Radical History Review (2009) 2009 (103): 59–81.
Published: 01 January 2009
... communities throughout the United States. However, in reality, questions of color were at the very heart of black American boxers' great popularity in Paris. Men like McVea, Jeannette, and Johnson inspired French sports enthusiasts to publicly reflect on their own conceptions of race, manhood, civilization...
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Radical History Review (2014) 2014 (119): 94–121.
Published: 01 May 2014
... most scholarship on the athletic component of the antiapartheid movement has focused on major team sports whose professional associations either subscribed to or rejected the boycott call, this article traces the evolution of that debate among surfers, showing how, by the mid-1980s, a small core...
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Radical History Review (2016) 2016 (125): 35–54.
Published: 01 May 2016
... as they related to three aspects of recreational football culture—men's workplace teams, women's football, and fan clubs—it argues that the sport, like few other leisure pursuits, illustrates the complex relationship between politics and pleasure in a one-party dictatorship. Football was an unusually visible...
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Radical History Review (2016) 2016 (125): 97–115.
Published: 01 May 2016
... Europeans in the United States during the transitional decade of the 1920s. The prefight coverage provides a unique window into the complex relationships between the construction of racial identities and mass sporting culture. Representations of Firpo hewed closely to established racial stereotypes and yet...
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Radical History Review (2016) 2016 (125): 116–136.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Jeffrey Richey From 1919 to 1921 sportswriters in a popular Buenos Aires tabloid gleefully unleashed an anti-Brazil campaign rooted in racial invective. This campaign ultimately provoked an international incident involving political and sports authorities, at the highest levels, in both Argentina...
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Radical History Review (2016) 2016 (125): 137–158.
Published: 01 May 2016
.... Pugilists violated legal prohibitions on prizefighting and created a context that energized the Mexican public sphere as a site of visceral debate about the propriety of prizefighting versus the Hispanic legacy of other blood sports and public spectacles such as cockfighting and bullfighting. Central here...
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Radical History Review (2016) 2016 (125): 206–213.
Published: 01 May 2016
... Kuhn's Soccer vs. the State: Tackling Football and Radical Politics, and Sid Lowe's Fear and Loathing in La Liga: Barcelona, Real Madrid, and the World's Greatest Sports Rivalry . Goldblatt David , The Game of Our Lives: The English Premier League and the Making of Modern Britain . ( New York...
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Radical History Review (2016) 2016 (125): 214–216.
Published: 01 May 2016
... is professor of history at the College of New Rochelle. She is the author of Not the
Triumph but the Struggle: The 1968 Olympic Games and the Making of the Black Athlete and
Those about Him Remained Silent: The Battle over W. E. B. Du Bois. She edits the “Sporting”
series for Temple University Press...
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Radical History Review (2007) 2007 (98): 63–80.
Published: 01 May 2007
... that characterized fashion,
sport, and popular entertainment in the first decade of the twentieth century.
An examination of music-hall culture in the years leading up to the Great
War reveals that contemporary concerns about bodily fitness informed a modern
aesthetic connecting the moral and physical...
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Radical History Review (2016) 2016 (125): 74–96.
Published: 01 May 2016
.... © 2016 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2016 black women sports history baseball memory No League of Their Own
Baseball, Black Women,
and the Politics of Representation
Amira Rose Davis
In July 1992, A League of Their Own, a film documenting the early days...
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Radical History Review (1993) 1993 (55): 154–164.
Published: 01 January 1993
... audiences felt more comfortable
seeing black ballplayers clown rather than compete, led to the flair
developed by the Harlem Globetrotters. George points out that
Globetrotter owner Abe Saperstein, ”helped popularize sport as
entertainment, using Blacks’ ability to entertain to spread basket...
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Radical History Review (1979) 1979 (20): 132–139.
Published: 01 May 1979
... for Legal Equality;
Women Working: An Anthology of Stories and Poems; Black
Foremothers: Three Lives; and Out of the Bleachers: Writings on
Women and Sport. All four of these books could be used as sup-
plementary readings in history and interdisciplinary courses on both
the college...
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