SOCI 3670 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Sovereign Default, Olympic Charter, Mighty Mouth
28 Jun 2016
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While everywhere else is sedentary: driving, desk jobs, etc. Sport is important site for resisting forms of oppression: who is included/excluded, nationalism superiority. Sports plays major role in molding sexuality, racism, sexism, homophobia, etc: children see role models resisting oppression. Sport as an important site for resisting oppression. Act of playing in major leagues is a political movement in the 1960s. Heavyweight champion: former champion came out of retirement, fought in 1910 (johnson versus. Jeffries: after the fight, johnson won and racial fights broke out, johnson refused to resist black resistance, went against taboos and married white women. 1930 & 1938 hitler proved that german boxer was of master race. Louis won in 1938, hitler cut off all the power when it was clear louis would win. Ali the activist: became friends with malcolm x, occupy white places (lunch counters)
