Week 12 Blog Post
For my week 12 blog post I chose to write on the article “Sparring in the White House: Theodore Roosevelt, Race, and Boxing” by Roberto José Andrade Franco. The article details the hypocrisy of
week 12
I read the text “sparring in the white house Theordor Roosvelt, race, boxing”. This was a very interesting read to me. I learned some things I have never heard of. Boxing was always thought
Club Atlético de Cuba Tigres in Prerevolutionary Cuban Gridiron Football
stirred patriotic expressions from the local media and became a touchstone for international American football games that followed. Cubans playing American football is not a sentence id think id read due to the embargo
Defenders of Honor
In the early 1900s the United States military swarmed and almost snuffed out Cuban culture and instead created a mix of their own. Cuba was in a way white washed by the U.S. military.
Week 12: Sparring in the White House
I have never looked at sports as a balancing factor in American society. Sure, it can bring the entire country together, i.e., the super bowl that brings in billions of viewers every year, but
Week 12: While the World Watched
This article was nauseating, to say the least. I think it was an important one because it covered the events of the 1978 World Cup and also brought in an element of humanity by
While the World Watched
I always heard about Maradona and Argentina’s run to World Cup glory in 1986. I also knew that they won in 1978 but I never really noticed that it wasn’t talked about as much.
Week 12 Blog: Sparring in the White House
For this weeks reading, I read “Sparring in the White House: Theodore Roosevelt, Race, and Boxing”. The article was written by Roberto Jose Andrade Franco, a history Ph.D. student at Southern Methodist University. The
Week 12 – While the World Watched
Coming into this week, I read “While the World Watched”, where Wright Thompson uncovers the dark history circulating Argentina and its first World Cup victory in 1978. “In the stadium, the dictators leaped into
Theodore Roosevelt, Race, and Boxing
“Speaking to boxing’s popularity, acceptance, and fear that the upper-classes were going soft, elite universities instituted boxing programs. Theodore Roosevelt was one of these boxing student-athletes as part of Harvard’s boxing club” I chose
