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Sporting Analysis

By K.C. Johnson

The lacrosse case featured some . . . unusual . . . sports-related commentary from members of the Group of 88. Karla Holloway produced an essay for Scholar and Feminist Online denouncing the women?s lacrosse team for publicly supporting their falsely accused men?s colleagues. Grant Farred penned a book advancing the preposterous argument that Houston Rockets center Yao Ming constituted ?the most profound threat to American empire.?It turns out that this sort of bizarre perspective on athletics isn?t confined to the Group of 88; like-minded colleagues at other institutions offer similar views. Indeed, the journal Sport in Society is filled with Group of 88-style, race/class/gender analysis of sports-related questions.Take, for instance, the work of Miami (Ohio) professor Mary McDonald, who describes herself as among the critical sport scholars? who use tools from such fields as women?s studies, ethnic studies, and cultural studies to produce scholarship ?concerned with issues of inequality and social justice...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on December 05, 2010 (boomark / email).