1st Edition
America's Game(s) A Critical Anthropology of Sport
1. Prologue: The Paradoxes of American Games from Within and Without Benjamin Eastman 2. Why Baseball, Why Cricket? Differing Nationalisms, Differing Challenges Boria Majumdar and Sean Brown 3. Let the Games Begin: Sport, U.S. Race Relations and Cold War Politics Damion Thomas 4. Capturing Racism: An Analysis of Racial Projects within the Lisa Simpson vs. University of Colorado Football Rape Case Todd Crosset 5. The Opposite of Losses: Where Lies the Soul of American Sports? Holly Swyers 6. Making the World Safe for Baseball: Reflections on Internationalism in Cooperstown and the World Baseball Classic John D. Kelly 7. Prototype: In Search of the Perfect Senegalese Basketball Physique Michael Ralph 8. Baseball in the Breach: Notes on Defection, Disaffection and Transition in Contemporary Cuba Benjamin Eastman 9. Latinizing the ‘National Pastime’ Alan Klein 10. Epilogue: It Was All a Dream (Wasn’t It?) Michael Ralph
Biography
Benjamin Eastman is a PhD candidate in socio-cultural anthropology at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on contemporary Cuban society and politics and in particular the relationships between sports, nationalism, and the transition to post-socialism in Cuba. Sean Brown is a PhD student in sociology at Northeastern University. Michael Ralph is a PhD candidate in socio-cultural anthropology at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on contemporary Senegal, in particular the prominence of sport in Senegalese encounters with globalization and neo-liberal reforms.
