This week we will be looking at the early history of many different sports. The reading that I chose to read was titled “‘The Tennessee Test of Manhood’: Professional Wrestling and southern Cultural Stereotypes”
“Blackness” and boxing is a topic that I am pretty familiar with in the United States. Throughout boxing’s golden age in the United States (1920s-30s) boxing served as a source of national and racial
I read, “John ‘Army’ Howard, Canada’s First Black Olympian: A Nation Building Paradox.” I found it very interesting and the story of John ‘Army’ Howard to be very interesting because of the paradox of
Dick Steinborn: wrestling is about “good overcoming evil” Roland Barthes: wrestling depicts a “purely moral concept: that of justice” In the reading, the author begins his argument with an account of a brutal wrestling
For this week’s reading, I chose to look at chapter eleven of The Tennessee Test of Manhood’: Professional Wrestling and Southern Cultural Stereotypes.” Overall, I found myself absolutely loving this reading due to a
“The King, the Young Prince, and the Last Confederate Soldier: NASCAR on the Cusp.” is a chapter in the journal, The Sporting World of the Modern South. It is written by Karyn Charles Rybacki
While I was doing this reading, I found myself thinking about the phenomenon of post-9/11 country music. The chapter itself focuses on the role of the south, southern stereotypes/identity, and (inter)national politics on the
The Myth of the Lost cause was a subject of matter that filled the hearts of southerners after the civil war had ended. This classification of pride, self-pity, and stubbornness were all acts of
I chose the first reading for this week, that being the one detailing the origins of the sport of wrestling in the South. I was a bit surprised by this particular reading as I
It has been made pretty clear over the history of the Americas that women’s sports have never been as popular or even liked as much as men’s. As a female athlete myself, and as
