...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...

...; they were not simply duped by outsiders. This issue of Radical History Review explores the politics and pleasure of sports in multiple countries and eras. Collectively, the contributions to this project point to a paradox in sports: they simultaneously empowered and disempowered, included...

... had the opportunity to read everyone's answers and edit their own responses. © 2016 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2016 sport race gender politics pedagogy TEACHING RADICAL HISTORY Teaching Forum on Sport and Politics Peter Alegi Amy Bass Adrian Burgos...

... 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...

... of the United Center neatly encapsulates this “neoliberal turn” and makes several contributions to our understanding of the history of the sports business and of capitalism in general. Most basically, it confirms a trio of important claims by economists about the transformation of public subsidies...

... from the national sports federation (Deutscher Turn-­ und Sportverband, or DTSB) and club members who refused to vote in elections.1 After months of wrangling, the club scored a partial triumph. The two-­point penalty Radical History Review Issue 125 (May 2016)  doi 10.1215/01636545-3451724...

.... © 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...

.... CURATED SPACES provides a focus on the relationship between visual culture and social, historical, or political subject matter. Notes 1. For a good overview of the intersection of sports and art history, see Carol Clark and Allen Guttmann, “Artists and Athletes,” Journal of Sports History 22...

... sport history Mining for Goals Football and Social Change on the Zambian Copperbelt, 1940s – 1960s Hikabwa D. Chipande With twenty minutes left in a 1962 semifinal Castle Cup match between Roan United and Nchanga Sports at Scrivener Stadium in Kitwe on the Zambian Copper­ belt, fans...

... struck down key provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, insisting that attempts to suppress the black vote in the South were a thing of the past. 164  Radical History Review Team sports like professional football are especially important public sym- bols of this system of racial...

... for maximum profit since slavery and that this breeding has created athletic bodies that can create maximum profit in sports stadiums as effectively as they once did in cotton fields.2 Rock’s humor riffs on the absurdity that athletics, often seen as a potential source Radical History Review Issue...

... of a broad dis- cursive framework in which even those operating on the margins felt compelled to 96   Radical History Review question their continued participation in South African sport. The movement also showed the boycotting surfers that they were not alone; indeed, they were making history...

... that whatever the value of the spectacle, everyone is living on borrowed money and borrowed time. Billed humbly on its back cover as “the definitive history of the greatest rivalry in world sport,” Sid Lowe’s Fear and Loathing in La Liga is meant as an account of the Barcelona vs. Real Madrid...

... of such contradictory appeals, with women’s physical culture often serving either as a footnote to broader histories of anxious masculine patriotism and elite recreation or as an exceptional prelude to the feminine style of the 1920s.9 Yet if one shifts focus away from orga- nized and recreational sports...

... estate,’ it would be the first!”69 Owner Botana would have chafed to hear his increasingly influential tabloid referred to as a “joke of a newspaper.” But Palacio Zino’s characterization of the 130  Radical History Review sports pages as “different from other sections” would prove crucial...

... has his work expanded the canon of African-American cultural expression, but perhaps more significantly, it suggests that we extend the focus of social history. Sport should not simply be included in our discus- sion of the past, it should be considered a form of artistic expres- sion...

..., although some of them do on an ad hoc basis, as is the case with a colleague in sports history who bonds well with student athletes. But her stable presence in their lives will soon end as she nears the end of her three-year appointment. When some of my colleagues and I argue for more...

...” (Ph.D. dissertation, Michigan State University, 1974), 143-44. For an even more sweeping indictment see Joel Spring, “Mass Culture and School Sports,” History of Education Quarterly, 14 (Winter, 1974), 483. 4. On the use of socialcontrol theory by historians see William A. Muraskin...

... 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...

... 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...