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Don't Stick to Sports Derek Charles Catsam

Don't Stick to Sports By Derek Charles Catsam

Don't Stick to Sports by Derek Charles Catsam


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The intersection of sports and politics has been making headlines over the last few years, but the reality is that this clash has been going on for decades. This book examines the history of sports as a means to advance social change and connects that history to today's world.

Don't Stick to Sports Summary

Don't Stick to Sports: The American Athlete's Fight against Injustice by Derek Charles Catsam

A significant examination of how athletes have fought for inclusion and equality on and off the playing field, despite calls for them to stick to sports.

There is a common cry in many public discussions that athletes should just stick to sports, that sports and politics are somehow sealed off from one another, even while team owners, directors, managers, and entire leagues insist on using patriotic displays such as the playing of the National Anthem in order to project a sense of unity. The truth, however, is that unity in sports and American society is far from the reality, and that athletes have as much a right as anyone to fight for a more inclusive world.

In Don't Stick to Sports: The American Athlete's Fight for Inclusion, Derek Charles Catsam carefully explores this disparity. He examines how, throughout sports history, minority athletes have had to fight every step of the way for their right to compete, and continue to fight for equity today. From African Americans and women to LGBTQ+ and religious minorities, Catsam shows how these athletes have taken a stand to address the underlying injustices in sports and society despite being told it's not their place to do so.

While it's impossible for a single book to tell the entire history of exclusion in sports in the United States, Don't Stick to Sports illustrates the ways in which both exclusion and the fight against that exclusion have helped to define a system that often claims to be based on meritocracy but has proven to be far from the truth.

About Derek Charles Catsam

Derek Catsam is professor of history and the Kathlyn Cosper Dunagan Professor in the Humanities at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin where he teaches courses on race, politics, and sports. His most recent books include Beyond the Pitch: The Spirit, Culture, and Politics of Brazil's 2014 World Cup and Flashpoint: How a Little-Known Sporting Event Fueled America's Anti-Apartheid Movement. Catsam has won awards, fellowships, and grants from a number of respected institutions and was named the 2016 Hugh Le May Fellow in the Humanities at Rhodes University. Catsam appeared in the Emmy award winning PBS American Experience documentary, Freedom Riders, and on C- Span's Book TV.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction The Binded and the Protected

Chapter 1 The Highest Point of the Game's Enthusiasm: The National Anthem, Patriotism, and the 1918 World Series

Chapter 2 Of Dead Sparrows and Muscle Molls: Gender Expectations and Women's Sport

Chapter 3 Jackie Robinson, The Army, and Sam Huston College: The Dilemma of the Black Athlete in 1940s

Chapter 4 A Tale of Two Cities: The Integration of Professional Sports in Boston and Cleveland

Chapter 5 The 1960s and the Limits of Integration in American College Sports

Chapter 6 Oh Say Can You See?: Rebellion, Anger, and Contested Americanisms

Chapter 7 Raised Fists, Black Shorts, and a Fallen Queen: Race, Politics, and Sex-pectations in Track and Field

Chapter 8 Gaps Between Ideals and Reality: Exclusion and Modern Sport

Conclusion Taking a Knee: Sport and Politics in 21st Century America

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Additional information

GOR013903346
9781538144718
1538144719
Don't Stick to Sports: The American Athlete's Fight against Injustice by Derek Charles Catsam
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Rowman & Littlefield
20231011
286
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