Syllabi
Politics of Sport
Dr. William L. Rosenberg
Fall 2008
This course is designed to introduce the student to the concepts and issues related to the study of the politics of sport. The material in this course comes from a variety of disciplines and schools of thought. Material will be presented chronologically as well as by sport and by various domains of study including ethnicity, gender, race, nationalism, globalism, economics and class.
General Reading Assignments
Sport and Society -Week 1
Victorian and Edwardian Sporting Values
Themes in the History of Sport up to the Twentieth Century
Sport, War, and the Three Orders of Feudal Society: 700-1300
Teaching Sport as History, History Through Sport
Sport and Politics: Kings and Countries: The historical tradition of political involvement in sport
Olympiad (Film)
Spirit of the Games (Film)
Olympics -Week 2 & 3
Olympic Games (Politics of Sport)
Munich Massacre (Politics of Sport)
The Olympic Movement as an Example of the Interdependence between Sport and Politics
Hitler’s Pawn (Film)
One Day in September (Film)
Ethnicity and Class -Week 4
The Politics of Boxing: Resistance, Religion, and Working Class Assimilation
Joe Louis as a Key Functionary: White Reactions Toward a Black Champion
Max Schmeling: Righteous Ring Warrior?
The Second Louis-Schmeling Fight – Sport, Symbol, and Culture
Organized Sport and Organized Labour: The Workers’ Sports Movement
The Fight: Joe Lewis and Max Schmeling (Film)
Unforgiven Blackness (Jack Johnson film)
Race and Sport -Week 5 & 6
African Americans in the Sports Arena
Black Athletes at the Millennium
Blasphemy! Curt Flood's Suit of Baseball
Diamond in the Rough: Baseball and the Study of American Sports History
Jack Johnson and White Women: The National Impact
Race Relations sociology of sport and the new politics of race and racism
A Student Without Peer: The Undergraduate College Years of Paul Robeson
The Black Athlete in Big-Time Intercollegiate Sports 1941-1968
Glory in Black and White (Film)
Fists of Fury: The Story of the ’68 Summer Olympics (Film)
Gender and Sport -Week 7
NCAA certification program does little to improve gender equity
Billie Jean King Documentary (Film)
Sports and Global Issues -Week 8
Sport and politics and injustice - Zimbabwe
Cricket and Politics in Colonial - India
Soviet Sport and Soviet Foreign Policy
:03 seconds to Gold (Film)
Sport and National Politics -Week 9
Sport in Politics - Politics in Sport: Stalinism in Poland in the years 1949-1956
Richard M. Nixon: The Psychic, Political and Moral Uses of Sport
Move to political arena not a stretch for some ex-jocks
Boxer Muhammad Ali and Soldier Idi Amin as International Political Symbols
Fields of Fire: Sports in the 60’s (Film)
Jim Brown: All American (Film)
Economics of Sport -Week 10
Buying the Games (BBC Transcript)
City and Sport Marketing Strategy: The Case Of Athens 2004
The Economic Impact of the Olympic Games
2002 Olympic Winter Games: Economic, Demographic and Fiscal Impact (Utah)
Micheal Leeds (Video)
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