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American Quarterly
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ISSN (Print) 0003-0678 - ISSN (Online) 1080-6490
Published by Johns Hopkins University Press

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  Abstract: Sports is America's most "popular" culture, with an enormous commercial investment. The COVID-19 pandemic threw a blunt reminder that the nation's—and the world's—political economy cannot survive without collegiate tournaments, national championships, and international games, which forged ahead amid surreal circumstances. The hopelessly capitalist sports culture, accompanied by the objectification, regulation, surveillance, and valuation of the body witnessed in no other field, shapes the discourse and experience of the racialized, gendered, sexualized bodies for all involved. Sports has been a powerful instrument of nation building, colonialism, occupation, and empire as well as of assertion of sovereignty ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-09-06T00:00:00-05:00
The Body Athletic
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  Abstract: In the twilight of the print magazine, ESPN took one last shot at winning the newsstand. On October 1, 2009, a year into the financial crisis that all but killed analog media, it announced the arrival of ESPN The Magazine's first annual Body Issue. A press release described it as "a celebration and exploration of the athletic form" and, in a dig at Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit Issue, a tribute to "athletes of diverse shapes, sizes, genders and races." Showcasing the muscled naked bodies of figure skaters, golfers, rock climbers, and surfers—their genitals carefully obscured by an arm, a leg, a basketball—the Body Issue invited readers to take in athletes' bare torsos and limbs as embodied art. The six alternative ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-09-06T00:00:00-05:00
Silicon Valley's Team: The Golden State Warriors, Datafied Managerialism,
and Basketball's Racialized Geography
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  Abstract: During Game 3 of the 2019 NBA Finals, Toronto Raptors guard Kyle Lowry fell into the stands at Oakland's Oracle Arena, then home of the Raptors' opponent Golden State Warriors. As Lowry stood up, a fan sitting courtside shoved him and yelled, "Go fuck yourself!" While the fan was ejected from the arena, he was shortly thereafter revealed to be Mark Stevens, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist who owns a minority share of the Warriors.1 The symbolism of a white, tech-industry billionaire team owner shoving a Black athlete was not lost on many, and the story crystallized some uncomfortable facts: first, that the players in a predominately Black league work for teams owned by a cabal of mostly white billionaires, and ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-09-06T00:00:00-05:00
The Seeping Surveillance of Sex in Sports
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  Abstract: On January 26, 2022, during an argument over South Dakota's Senate Bill 46, which would effectively ban transgender boys and girls from participating in youth sports,1 the governor's chief of staff, Mark Miller, stated that while there were no known instances of trans girls dominating sports in South Dakota, in other states, "'It's sort of like terrorism.'"2Why is the term terrorism on the tip of a state official's tongue in a discussion about girls' youth sports, a context that seems so far afield from violent attacks or even discussions of national security' The state's Republican governor, Kristi Noem, later attempted to smooth over the comment, stating "'that's not Mark's heart,'" and that "'this issue, of ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-09-06T00:00:00-05:00
Antagonistic Sports Fandom
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  Abstract: During his second presidential debate with Hillary Clinton in 2016, Donald Trump was asked about a leaked recording from 2005 in which Trump had boasted to the television personality Billy Bush of sexual assault. Trump quickly dismissed his remarks as "locker room talk" before veering into a discussion of various threats and humiliations that the United States had faced in recent years:I'm going to make our country safe. We're going to have borders in our country, which we don't have now. People are pouring into our country, and they're coming in from the Middle East and other places. We're going to make America safe again. We're going to make America great again, but we're going to make America safe again. ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-09-06T00:00:00-05:00
Occupied Joy: The Politics of Skateboarding in Palestine
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  Abstract: Keisha Finai, Untitled. Featured in Finai's zine titled Inshallah (Salt Lake City, UT: Keisha Finai, 2020), 17."Staying is resistance. Skating is freedom. So give us freedom, so we can resist."1 Spray-painted in Arabic on a ramp at a skatepark in the northern West Bank village of Asira al-Shamaliya, these words serve as a constant reminder of the liberating feeling that many Palestinians experience when they skate. This particular skatepark, Rosa Park, was built by the UK-based nonprofit SkatePal in 2015 and is now the largest skatepark in the country.2 Since then, attendance at the skatepark has grown tremendously, and it is now a community space where local youth gather daily to skate and play. A quick scroll ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-09-06T00:00:00-05:00
Nos Vemos en la Cancha: Latinx Women Athletes Making Place in Los Angeles
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  Abstract: "Being here [in the US], I felt liberated, I said, this is what I want to do, this is what I am passionate about, this [soccer] is my life."1 For Latinx immigrant women like Yarely Flores Bustamante, soccer is more than a pastime—it is a lifestyle. Yarely was born in El Progreso de Yoro, Honduras, and lived under the care of both her paternal and maternal grandmothers until the age of thirteen, when she immigrated to the US. Soccer provides a transnational form of emotional and psychological grounding for Yarely as a point of familiarity in a foreign society. Yarely recounts her experience of rejection and criticism she felt as an eight-year-old Honduran when local town observers declared that "girls who play ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-09-06T00:00:00-05:00
Grappling with the Digital: The New Industrial Geographies of Professional
Wrestling
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  Abstract: On August 22, 2015, NXT Takeover: Brooklyn turned the pro wrestling industry on its head. The show took place in Brooklyn, New York, at the Barclays Arena. World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) branded this unique event as a wrestling triple header, as Takeover would take place on Saturday, Summerslam would take place on Sunday, and Raw would take place on Monday in the same venue. This was the first time that NXT Takeover would take place outside the Full Sail Arena in Orlando, Florida, where the capacity crowd reached only four hundred. The live attendance capacity for the Brooklyn event exceeded fifteen thousand. Because of this vast difference in scale and in scope, numerous changes and adjustments were taking ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-09-06T00:00:00-05:00
De-exceptionalizing Sunisa Lee: Uneven Gymnastics and a Hmong American
State-less Critique
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  Abstract: In 2019, a Minneapolis Star Tribune article described Hmong American gymnast Sunisa "Suni" Lee as merely an Olympic "hopeful" struggling to maintain a sense of normalcy as a sixteen-year-old teenager at South Saint Paul Secondary, a suburban public school near Saint Paul, Minnesota, where Hmong Americans make up the largest Asian American population in the state.1 Lee, a specialist on the uneven bars, was propelled to stardom when she joined the United States gymnastics team and ultimately won the gold medal in the individual all-around event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Relatedly, Lee's parents, John Lee and Yeev Thoj, refugees who escaped the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) "secret war" in Laos as children ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-09-06T00:00:00-05:00
Playing on Grassroots: The Anti-Apartheid Movement, Arthur Ashe, and the
Sport Boycott
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  Abstract: On the final day of the 1977 US Open, a small crowd gathered across from the entrance of the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, Queens. Chants drifted toward the stadium: "Sports, yes! Apartheid, no! Tennis with South Africa has got to go!"1 When Arthur Ashe wandered down from the broadcast booth to meet with the protestors, it put the pickets in the papers. Some conveyed his approving remarks, but others told readers that Ashe had "admonished" protestors who offered a "warm welcome" before they "jeered" as he critiqued their tactics.2 An organizer's report framed the interaction as awkward, even a touch hostile: "Ironically, Arthur Ashe, black American tennis champion, grabbed a bullhorn from the demonstrators ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-09-06T00:00:00-05:00
Vanguard of the Athletic Revolution: The Black Panther Party, Micki and
Jack Scott, and the Sports Liberation Movement
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  Abstract: Decades before the player empowerment movement of the 2010s, Black Power created a rejoinder to the sporting culture of the 1960s and 1970s. The Olympic Committee for Human Rights, the 1968 Black Power Salute, and athletic protests of the Vietnam War all signified an important collision between self-determination and a variety of sports. A sports liberation movement, critical of everything from capitalism and professional sports to gender and racial politics, emerged and banded together individuals influenced by socialist approaches to bodily freedom and movement. Far from the big stages of press conferences, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense aligned itself with the ideologies of figures such as Harry ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-09-06T00:00:00-05:00
On an American Study of Sports: A Conversation
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  Abstract: Sports studies emerged in the United States as multiple fields belonging to separate disciplines—sports history, sociology of sport, sports media studies—but didn't until recently find an institutional home precisely where those disciplines converge, in American studies. Noah Cohan and others petitioned the American Studies Association to form the Sports Studies Caucus in 2011. It sponsored its first panels at the 2012 meeting in San Juan. The following is less a state of the field than a state of the fields, sports studies and American studies. We asked some of the leading scholars working at that intersection about the present and promise of an American study of sports.Ahead of the 2014 American Studies ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-09-06T00:00:00-05:00