Deconstructing Sport History: A Postmodern Analysis

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Contents Foreword vii Alun Munslow Introduction: Sport History and Postmodernism 1 Murray G. Phillips PART ONE: ON THEORY 1. Sport Historians: What Do We Do? How Do We Do It? 27 Douglas Booth 2. Sport History between the Modern and Postmodern 55 Brett Hutchins 3. A Linguistic Turn into Sport History 75 Michael Oriard PART TWO: ON PRACTICE 4. Partial Knowledge: Photographic Mystifications and Constructions of “The African Athlete” 95 John Bale 5. Anecdotal Evidence: Sport, the Newspaper Press, and History 117 Jeffrey Hill 6. Wasn’t It Ironic? The Haxey Hood and the Great War 131 Catriona M. Parratt v 7. Decentering “Race” and (Re)presenting “Black” Performance in Sport History: Basketball and Jazz in American Culture, 1920–1950 147 S. W. Pope PART THREE: ON THE FUTURE 8. Beyond Traditional Sports Historiography: Toward a Historical “Holograph” 181 Robert E. Rinehart 9. Contact with God, Body, and Soul: Sport History and the Radical Orthodoxy Project 203 Synthia Sydnor 10. Time Gentlemen Please: The Space and Place of Gender in Sport History 227 Patricia Vertinsky Conclusion 245 Murray G. Phillips List of Contributors 255 Index 259 SUNY Series on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations vi Contents 265 ...