SPAN 55.14 Sports Studies in Latin America. Cultures and Cults.

 

This course offers a critical cultural approach to Sports as spectacle, commodity, business, and competition in Latin America, and serves as a review to major trends in sports studies. The relationship between sports and nation, social class, race, and gender will help students examine both professional and amateur sports in their national and transnational dimension. Topics include: the meaning of games and sports in Latin American cultures, baseball and the byproducts Latino-diasporas, soccer and 19th century British imperialism, mass cultures and politics in relations to sports, and a host of case studies that illuminate the cultures and cults around competition, sportsmanship, and athleticism in Latin-American.  We will analyze fiction and non-fiction, films, photographic essays, and other media on baseball, soccer (futbol), basketball, rugby, boxing, lucha libre and MMA, running and motorsports.

Degree Requirement Attributes

Dist:SOC; WCult:W

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Department-Specific Course Categories

Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures