Sporting Bodies

From Don Imus’ 2007 “nappy-headed hos” comment to controversies about transgender athletes or athletes with prosthetics; from covers of magazines to violence in Dodger’s Stadium parking lot; footballers not standing during national anthem, college men’s teams rating women’s teams in terms of sexual positions, unionization of athletes—discourses of sport draw heavily upon extant ideologies of race, gender, sexuality, and class. Introduction to critical analyses of social categories and how they are represented and reproduced in various sports and media. Critical examination of historical social values and how they are reproduced through sport.

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