1st Edition
Crafting Patriotism for Global Dominance America at the Olympics
By Mark Dyreson
Copyright 2009
198 Pages
by
Routledge
198 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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In 2008 China plans to use the Olympic Games to remake its national identity in the global marketplace. In so doing China treads the path blazed by the United States. For more than a century the U.S. has used the Olympic Games to construct national identity, create communal memory, and craft patriotic mythology. From opening parades where the American team refuses to dip its flag in... Read more
- Prologue by Allen Guttmann
- ‘This Flag Dips for No Earthly King’: The Mysterious Origins of an American Myth
- Stars and Stripes at Cold War Games: The Strange Evolution of an American Myth
- Playing for a National Identity: Sport, Ethnicity, and American Political Culture during the ‘Melting Pot’ Era
- Return to the Melting Pot: An Old American Olympic Story
- American Ideas about Race and Olympic Races from the 1890s through the 1920s: Scientific Racism versus Egalitarian Ideologies
- American Ideas about Race and Olympic Races from the 1890s through the 1950s: The Rise of ‘Black Auxiliaries’ and the Decline of Scientific Racism?
- Johnny Weissmuller and the Old Global Capitalism: The Federal Blueprint to Sell American Culture in the 1920s and 1930s
- Olympic Games and Historical Imagination: Notes from the Fault Line of Tradition and Modernity
- Epilogue by JA Mangan
Biography
Mark Dyreson is an associate professor of kinesiology and history at Pennsylvania State University and is also President of the North American Society for Sport History.
