Native Americans and Sport in North America : Other People's Games

ISBN-13: 9780415494922 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 202 str.

King C.

Opis

This text offers a considerate and critical account of the Native American sporting experience. It challenges popular images of indigenous athletes and athletics exploring social categories, particularly gender and race and their implications.

Spis treści

1. Becoming Indian, Erasing History: George Catlin’s Choctaw Ball-Play Paintings  2. The Legend of the Tarahumara: Tourism, Overcivilization, and the White Man’s Indian  3. The Mythical Jim Thorpe: Represntations, Significations, and Implications  4. The Return of the Vanishing Indian: Imaging Indigenous Sport at Century’s End  5. Native Sports at the Washakie Colony of Nothern Utah, 1906-1929  6. High School Sport on the Navajo Nation  7. First Nation Masculinity and its Influence on Canada’s Sport Heritage  8. Interactions Between Mississippi Choctaw and European Americans through the Sport of Toli  9. ‘Native to Native...We’ll Recapture Our Spirits’: The World Indigenous & Nations Games and North American Indigenous Games as Cultural Resistance  10. The Return of the Native: Sport and Indigenity in Postmodern Times

O autorze

C. Richard King, associate professor of comparative ethnic studies at Washington State University, has written extensively on the changing position of Native Americans in post-Civil Rights America, the colonial legacies and postcolonial predicaments of American culture, and the racial politics of sport. He is also the author/editor of four books, including Team Spirits: The Native American Mascot Controversy (a CHOICE 2001 Outstanding Academic Title) Postcolonial America, and The Encyclopedia of Native Americans and Sport.