Sports and Ethnicity
Who are German immigrants?
This man was the first black man to plan in the MLB
Who is Jackie Robinson?
This famous Native American gold-medal athlete attended Carlisle Indian School.
Who is Jim Thorpe?
In 2016 he famously took a knee during the national anthem at 49ers games.
David Wiggins is often assumed to be black because of his interest in writing about this topic.
What is black athletes?
Girls from this school became known as the 1904 world baseketball champions.
What is Fort Shaw Indian Boarding School?
Jose Alamillo argues that baseball leagues transformed into labor movments for migrenat workers who harvested this fruti on Southern California farms.
What are lemons?
What is an everywoman?
His race has been widely talked about by the media, but most commonly he is known as a ground-breaking African American golfer.
Who is Tiger Woods?
Amy Bass discusses this anthology in her “State of the Field,” claiming that it is an example of good sports history work.
What is Sports Matters?
The “noble savage” streyotype was commonly prescribed to this group of athletes.
Who are Native American Athletes?
Peter Levine writes about elite country clubs, which he argues created a deeper divide in this ethnic community in the early twentieth century.
What is the Jewish community?
Often, there is a lack of ______ for people of color in skiing, and Anne Gilbert Coleman argues that this leads to a lack of diversity in
What is representation?
In 1992, this Heisman trophy winner was ruled not guilty for the murder of his ex-wife. Many people belived the trial was fuled by race relations in Los Angeles.
Who is O.J. Simpson?
Amy Bass says that this field of history has done particulalry good work on discussing sports history in her “State of the Field.”
What is cultural history?
Michael Oriard argues that football became so popular due to a fear of this characteristic diminishing.
What is masculinity?
This baseball league gave women an opportunity to play professionally during WWII, but fame came at a price for the women who had to follow strict rules.
What is the All-American Girls Baseball League?
Susan Ware argues that the invention of the sports bra, Billie Jean King’s victory in “the Battle of the Sexes,” and the passing of this law all made major strides for women athletes.
What is Title IX?
Hase defines this term as “a pattern of migration which tends to flow from third-world countries to first-world countries.”
What is the global-labor migration?
David Wiggins has been asked many times what authority he has to write about black sports history. He says he would like to pose the question “Can you be an American historian and not be interested in _______— regardless of your _____?”
(Same word twice)
What is race?
What is a nickel?
This team won the pennant in Don DeLillo’s fictional story about the 1951 playoff game, where he tests the boundaries of historical fiction and memory. But, the won it in real life too.
Who are the Giants?
Samuel Regealdo argues that this group of second generation children used sports (particulalry baseball) as a means of carving out a seperate identity for themselves as their parents settled in Oregon.
Who are the Nisei?
George Lipsitz claims that one of the reasons that the O.J Simpson trial became so popular in the media is because it portrayed the troupe of the family in this state.
What is jeopardy?
Amy Bass aregues that while race has become a central cetegory of analysis in sports, historians still need to work on understanding and studying the ______ politics of sports.
What is gender?