{"id":1209,"date":"2012-02-20T10:16:30","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T15:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2012-02-20T10:17:59","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T15:17:59","slug":"sports-and-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2012\/02\/20\/sports-and-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports and Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Society Pages&#8217; first <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/papers\/\">White Paper<\/a>, <\/strong>published earlier this month, focuses on the intersections of politics and sport. White Papers are in-depth explorations of relevant topics in the social sciences and \u00a0will be an ongoing part of The Society Pages. We recommend using this White Paper, &#8220;<a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/papers\/politics-and-sport\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Politics and Sports: Strange, Secret Bedfellow<\/a>s&#8221; by Kyle Green and Doug Hartmann, in your classroom as a great overview of the politics of sports&#8230;and the sport of politics.\u00a0<a title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by Jingles the Pirate on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/97448468@N00\/493038780\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/229\/493038780_4ed819f840_m.jpg\" alt=\"Score\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This easy-to-read and informative paper explores many topics relevant to your students. Here are a few:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do sports play a role in maintaining racial stereotypes, in particular the athletic prowess and intellectual deficiency of black men?<\/li>\n<li>Similarly, how do gendered stereotypes of ability and interest in sports get reproduced? And how can such stereotypes be understood damaging for women?<\/li>\n<li>Should sports be understood as a site where boys learn how to &#8220;perform&#8221; a hegemonic brand of dominant and physical manhood?<\/li>\n<li>Are sports the\u00a0\u201copiate of the masses\u201d\u2014something mindless to occupy the working class\u2019s time and energy, which might otherwise be invested in creating drastic political change?<\/li>\n<li>How can we understand\u00a0the infusion of sports language and metaphors in politics? Why do politicians use such language and what are the possible\u00a0repercussions of this type of language?<\/li>\n<li>How should we understand the display of anthems, flags, and military personnel (or fighter jets) at sporting events of all kinds (e.g. standing for the national anthem)?<\/li>\n<li>Should tax dollars be used to fund professional sports stadiums? How has this taken-for-granted link between state government and for-profit sports teams been formed?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Society Pages&#8217; first White Paper, published earlier this month, focuses on the intersections of politics and sport. White Papers are in-depth explorations of relevant topics in the social sciences and \u00a0will be an ongoing part of The Society Pages. We recommend using this White Paper, &#8220;Politics and Sports: Strange, Secret Bedfellows&#8221; by Kyle Green [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[55,85,14,838,108],"class_list":["post-1209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-gender","tag-politics","tag-race","tag-readings","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1248,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions\/1248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}