America's Game(s): A Critical Anthropology of Sport

ISBN-13: 9780415494571 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 202 str.

Eastman Benjamin

Opis

This book considers how to locate America in the sporting world and how 'American Sport' should reflect the vast networks of expertise, finance, and performance moving out from American athletic body as well as the influx of talent coming from abroad.

Spis treści

1. Prologue: The Paradoxes of American Games from Within and Without  Benjamin Eastman  2. Why Baseball, Why Cricket? Differing Nationalisms, Differing Challenges   Boria Majumdar and Sean Brown  3. Let the Games Begin: Sport, U.S. Race Relations and Cold War Politics  Damion Thomas  4. Capturing Racism: An Analysis of Racial Projects within the Lisa Simpson vs. University of Colorado Football Rape Case  Todd Crosset  5. The Opposite of Losses: Where Lies the Soul of American Sports?  Holly Swyers  6. Making the World Safe for Baseball: Reflections on Internationalism in Cooperstown and the World Baseball Classic  John D. Kelly  7. Prototype: In Search of the Perfect Senegalese Basketball Physique  Michael Ralph  8. Baseball in the Breach: Notes on Defection, Disaffection and Transition in Contemporary Cuba  Benjamin Eastman  9. Latinizing the ‘National Pastime’  Alan Klein  10. Epilogue: It Was All a Dream (Wasn’t It?)  Michael Ralph