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“The Negro Athlete and Victory”: Athletics and Athletes as Advancement Strategies in Black America, 1890s–1930s
Dexter Lee Blackman
The Significance of Baseball Games Between South Korean Teams and US Army Teams Shortly After World War II
Moongi Cho
stimulated people’s curiosity and ignited baseball fever. Second, the students’ sophisticated skills and strategies made domestic players realize that they had not really been challenged up to that point, and they made efforts to improve their skills. Third, domestic players gained more insight by watching
Humor, Irony, and Indigenous Peoples: A Re-Reading of the Historical Record of the 1904 St. Louis Olympic Championship
Christine M. O’Bonsawin
This paper serves as a re-reading of the historical record concerning the participation of a Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) team in the lacrosse championship of the 1904 St. Louis Olympic Games. Indigenous and deconstructionist methodological frameworks provide historians with strategies for reopening archival texts to ironic interpretation in the hope that we may better recognize the efforts of Indigenous peoples to confront and challenge colonial hegemony. Accordingly, this paper first evaluates the uncritical acceptance of a Kanien’kehá:ka lacrosse player roster comprising unconventional names into the official Olympic record. Second, a re-reading of archival texts allows us to reopen history to ironic interpretation, exposing the possibility that Kanien’kehá:ka players used humor and laughter to resist, subvert, and, ultimately, deny colonial hegemony. We may begin to support the larger missions of Indigenous resurgence and decolonization by revisiting our histories, and thus giving testimony to the past.
Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), Power, and Politics: A Socio-Historical Analysis
Hans Erik Næss
’s historical legacy as autonomous sporting body and its organizational adaptation to modern stakeholder realities in the context of political responsibilities, is a revamp of FIA’s strategy on social issues. With Ecclestone resigning as CEO of FOG in 2017, the close relationship between his omnipresent
Meaning by Doing: The Making of Endurance Activism on the 1986 Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament
Dain TePoel
the Great Peace March. I then situate the March within the politics of the nuclear disarmament movement of the early-to-mid-1980s. Next, I develop "endurance activism" as a conceptual framework to facilitate an understanding of the significance of the marchers’ strategy as a response to the limits and
Tracing the Pioneers: Ballroom Dance Instructors and “Taxi-dance Girls” in Modern Chinese Leisure Sports
Zeng Guang Duan, Ying He, and Jian Gang Qiu
occupational origin, benefit distribution mechanisms, and livelihood strategies of Modern Chinese “Taxi-dance Girls” will generate certain value in supplementing historical materials and theoretical innovations. First, examining the historical trajectory of compensated dance companionship, French dance
The Transformation of Taiwanese Women’s Physical Education in Schools During the Japanese Colonial Period (1895–1945)
Hsiang-Pin Chin and Ping-Chao Lee
feet. We adopted an inductive approach and integrated it into marching practice, broad games, and school excursions to pay homage at temples. 25 As a consequence, using broad games to replace PE classes was the most effective strategy for encouraging students with bound feet to engage in physical
“If Britain Wants War on Africa, She Will Have It”: African Reprisals to the 1974 British Lions Rugby Tour of South Africa
Michelle M. Sikes
to boycott major festivals, matches, and championship tournaments unless South Africa withdrew. As historian Douglas Booth notes, “The sports boycott was the only anti-apartheid strategy that adversely touched the lives of ordinary white South Africans.” 5 South Africans prized rugby, which made the
Football and Nation Building in Colombia (2010–2018): The Only Thing That Unites Us
Alec S. Hurley
’s work constitutes a groundbreaking study in all of these areas. His book defines football as a type of “discourse strategy” wherein moments of excessive patriotism dovetail from footballing success to manifest an invented, though no less powerful, concept of a new nation. This framing is not unique to
Football and Nation Building in Colombia (2010–2018): The Only Thing That Unites Us
Alyssa Hirsch
’ use of football rhetoric was a strategy that relied on brief moments of nationalism, to build lasting nationalism. This book is an edited version of his dissertation, titled #UnPaísEnUnaCancha: Football and Nation-Building in Colombia During the Presidency of Juan Manuel Santos (2010–2018) . Watson
