Kinesiology 490, M 3-6
Graduate Seminar: Cultural Studies of Racism and Sport
Professor CL Cole

Description:

This course will provide students with an advanced introduction to recent themes, theoretical influences, and methodological approaches that are facilitating the study of sport and race.  In particular, we will consider how cultural studies has expanded our ability to investigate the relations between race, gender, and nation and sport-related phenomena.  In addition to considering the analytical resources and controversies that now condition our perceptions of sport and racism, our readings and discussion this semester are expressly intended to shape how and where race and sport are studied in the future. 

Confirmed guest speakers include: Grant Farred (Duke University); Adrian Burgos (U.S. Latino History, UIUC); Derek Pardue (Anthropology, UIUC); and Damien Thomas (Afro-American Studies, UIUC). 

Conference: Students will be expected to attend the Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society=s conference -- Capitalizing on Sport: America, Democracy, & Everyday Life (March 14-15, 2003).

Possible texts:

Bach, Les; Crabbe, Tim; and Solomos, John. 2001. The Changing Face of Football: Racism, Multiculturalism & Identity in the English Game. New York University Press.

Bass, Amy. 2002. Not the Triumph but the Struggle: The 1968 Olympics and the Making of the Black Athlete. University of Minnesota Press.

Bloom, John and Willard, Michael Nevin, Eds. 2002. Sports Matters: Race, Recreation and Culture. New York University Press.

Gilroy, Paul. 2000. Against Race: Imagining Political Culture Beyond the Color Line. Harvard University Press.

Hietala, Thomas R. 2002. Fight of the Century. M.E. Sharpe.

Marqusee, Mark. 1999. Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties. Verso.

Markovits, Andei S. and Hellerman, Steven L. 2001. Offside: Soccer and American Exceptionalism. Princeton University Press.

Martin, Randy and Miller, Toby. 1999. SportCult. University of Minnesota Press.

Rampersad, Arnold. 1997. Jackie Robinson: A Biography. New York: Knopf.

Wright, Jim. 2002. Fixin= to Git: One Fan=s Love Affair with NASCAR=s Winston Cup. Duke University Press.

Other readings will include articles by: Kal Alston, David Andrews, Pierre Bourdieu, Adrian Burgos, Susan Brownell, Ben Carrington, Norman Denzin, Grant Farred, Doug Hartmann, George Lipsitz, Cameron McCarthy, Melani McAlister, Toby Miller, Derek Pardue, Sara Projansky, Kent Ono, David Roediger, Michael Rogin, Carlo Rontella, Damien Thomas, Loic Wacquant, Garry Whannel, John Williams, Linda Williams, and Henry Yu.