Alan M Klein
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3812005 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Alan M Klein |
| NOMBRES | Alan M |
| APELLIDO | Klein |
| FIRMA | KLEIN A M |
| AFILIACIONES | 1Northeastern University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 85 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1977 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2016 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Baseball on the Border
Baseball on the Border
Tender Machos
This study examines the social and cross-cultural aspects of masculinity through an ethnographic assessment of a Mexican League baseball team. The institution and meaning of “machismo” are examined along three indices of emotion: expression of vulnerability and hurt, reactions to children, and expression of physicality. The view widely held by North Americans that Latino and Latin American men are one-dimensional machos is critiqued. It is argued…
Culture, Politics, and Baseball in the Dominican Republic
In examining baseball's cultural and ideological role in the Dominican Republic, it is important to consider the relations between the United States and the Dominican Republic, not only because of U.S. domination of the nation and of the sport's North American origins but because the present and future of the sport increasingly rely on Latin American (particularly Dominican) talent. What this means to Dominicans and how it plays itself out as spo…
Little big men
Sugarball
Sugarhall: The American Game, the Dominican Dream. By Alan M. Klein. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991. xii + 179 pp. $19.93, ISBN 0-300-04873-4.) and The Tropic of Baseball: Baseball in the Dominican Republic. By Rob Ruck. (Westport: Meckler, 1991. xx + 205 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-88736-707-0.) Get access Warren Goldstein Warren Goldstein State University College of New York, Old Westhury, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxfo…
Sugarball
Sugarball
Sport and Culture as Contested Terrain
In looking at the “Americanization” of sport in other societies, we are essentially looking at a version of cultural colonialism. Sport, as a segment of popular culture, is certainly an effective form of promoting cultural hegemony. However, this essay argues for the use of cultural resistance as an opposing notion. Based on the author’s study of Dominican baseball, the picture of a tension between hegemonic and resistant cultural forces is summa…
Baseball as Underdevelopment
This study examines the political-economy of baseball in the Dominican Republic from a critical perspective. As such, the presence of American major league teams is seen to have a deleterious structural effect on the autonomy and quality of baseball in the Dominican Republic. In particular, in attempting to develop the game, U.S. interests—like those of other multinationals—are underdeveloping the game. A second dimension to this study views base…
Managing deviance
The subculture of bodybuilding is the backdrop of an analysis of some contradictions inherent in American masculinity. One of the most unusual, but telling of these has to do with “hustling”: the widespread selling of sexual favors by bodybuilders to gay men. In this, one also finds the incongruent presence of homophobia. Hence, homosexual behavior is juxtaposed by anti‐homosexual behavior. This study shows that this irony is necessary if the hus…
American hegemony, Dominican resistance, and baseball
The Manly Art
Pumping Irony
While the projection of ideal images is very important in American culture, it is in the subculture and sport of bodybuilding that it gets carried to the extreme. A 4-year study of bodybuilding’s mecca—Southern California—revealed a fundamental set of discrepancies between what the subculture projects as ideal and what actually goes on. These discrepancies are examined to determine which ones result from changes that have taken place in body-buil…
Pumping iron
Muscle Manor
This paper looks at one historical paradigm in the study of sport. Using social traits reflective of feudalism and capitalism, big time bodybuilding developed a set of seemingly contradictory institutions and values. Atavistic social and political relations were fused with a modern capitalist economic base. Two important traits in bodybuilding's ideology - dependency and individualism - are examined as reflective of these different epochs. It is …
The Supranational Organization of Production
Fresh theoretical perspectives are required for understanding the rapid expansion of international economic activity and especially the organization of production on a world scale through institutions of multinational enterprise. Ananthropological evolutionary approach which sees these developments as part of the generation of a new system at a supranational level of sociocultural integration seems appropiate to the task. The creation of such a n…
The Supranational Organization of Production
Fresh theoretical perspectives are required for understanding the rapid expansion of international economic activity and especially the organization of production on a world scale through institutions of multinational enterprise. Ananthropological evolutionary approach which sees these developments as part of the generation of a new system at a supranational level of sociocultural integration seems appropiate to the task. The creation of such a n…
Pumping Irony
While the projection of ideal images is very important in American culture, it is in the subculture and sport of bodybuilding that it gets carried to the extreme. A 4-year study of bodybuilding’s mecca—Southern California—revealed a fundamental set of discrepancies between what the subculture projects as ideal and what actually goes on. These discrepancies are examined to determine which ones result from changes that have taken place in body-buil…
Baseball as Underdevelopment
This study examines the political-economy of baseball in the Dominican Republic from a critical perspective. As such, the presence of American major league teams is seen to have a deleterious structural effect on the autonomy and quality of baseball in the Dominican Republic. In particular, in attempting to develop the game, U.S. interests—like those of other multinationals—are underdeveloping the game. A second dimension to this study views base…
Sport and Culture as Contested Terrain
In looking at the “Americanization” of sport in other societies, we are essentially looking at a version of cultural colonialism. Sport, as a segment of popular culture, is certainly an effective form of promoting cultural hegemony. However, this essay argues for the use of cultural resistance as an opposing notion. Based on the author’s study of Dominican baseball, the picture of a tension between hegemonic and resistant cultural forces is summa…
Managing deviance
The subculture of bodybuilding is the backdrop of an analysis of some contradictions inherent in American masculinity. One of the most unusual, but telling of these has to do with “hustling”: the widespread selling of sexual favors by bodybuilders to gay men. In this, one also finds the incongruent presence of homophobia. Hence, homosexual behavior is juxtaposed by anti‐homosexual behavior. This study shows that this irony is necessary if the hus…
Culture, Politics, and Baseball in the Dominican Republic
In examining baseball's cultural and ideological role in the Dominican Republic, it is important to consider the relations between the United States and the Dominican Republic, not only because of U.S. domination of the nation and of the sport's North American origins but because the present and future of the sport increasingly rely on Latin American (particularly Dominican) talent. What this means to Dominicans and how it plays itself out as spo…
Muscle Manor
This paper looks at one historical paradigm in the study of sport. Using social traits reflective of feudalism and capitalism, big time bodybuilding developed a set of seemingly contradictory institutions and values. Atavistic social and political relations were fused with a modern capitalist economic base. Two important traits in bodybuilding's ideology - dependency and individualism - are examined as reflective of these different epochs. It is …
Pumping iron
Tender Machos
This study examines the social and cross-cultural aspects of masculinity through an ethnographic assessment of a Mexican League baseball team. The institution and meaning of “machismo” are examined along three indices of emotion: expression of vulnerability and hurt, reactions to children, and expression of physicality. The view widely held by North Americans that Latino and Latin American men are one-dimensional machos is critiqued. It is argued…
The Supranational Organization of Production
Fresh theoretical perspectives are required for understanding the rapid expansion of international economic activity and especially the organization of production on a world scale through institutions of multinational enterprise. Ananthropological evolutionary approach which sees these developments as part of the generation of a new system at a supranational level of sociocultural integration seems appropiate to the task. The creation of such a n…
Pumping iron
Muscle Manor
This paper looks at one historical paradigm in the study of sport. Using social traits reflective of feudalism and capitalism, big time bodybuilding developed a set of seemingly contradictory institutions and values. Atavistic social and political relations were fused with a modern capitalist economic base. Two important traits in bodybuilding's ideology - dependency and individualism - are examined as reflective of these different epochs. It is …
Pumping Irony
While the projection of ideal images is very important in American culture, it is in the subculture and sport of bodybuilding that it gets carried to the extreme. A 4-year study of bodybuilding’s mecca—Southern California—revealed a fundamental set of discrepancies between what the subculture projects as ideal and what actually goes on. These discrepancies are examined to determine which ones result from changes that have taken place in body-buil…
The Manly Art
American hegemony, Dominican resistance, and baseball
Baseball as Underdevelopment
This study examines the political-economy of baseball in the Dominican Republic from a critical perspective. As such, the presence of American major league teams is seen to have a deleterious structural effect on the autonomy and quality of baseball in the Dominican Republic. In particular, in attempting to develop the game, U.S. interests—like those of other multinationals—are underdeveloping the game. A second dimension to this study views base…
Managing deviance
The subculture of bodybuilding is the backdrop of an analysis of some contradictions inherent in American masculinity. One of the most unusual, but telling of these has to do with “hustling”: the widespread selling of sexual favors by bodybuilders to gay men. In this, one also finds the incongruent presence of homophobia. Hence, homosexual behavior is juxtaposed by anti‐homosexual behavior. This study shows that this irony is necessary if the hus…
Sugarball
Sport and Culture as Contested Terrain
In looking at the “Americanization” of sport in other societies, we are essentially looking at a version of cultural colonialism. Sport, as a segment of popular culture, is certainly an effective form of promoting cultural hegemony. However, this essay argues for the use of cultural resistance as an opposing notion. Based on the author’s study of Dominican baseball, the picture of a tension between hegemonic and resistant cultural forces is summa…
Sugarball
Little big men
Sugarball
Sugarhall: The American Game, the Dominican Dream. By Alan M. Klein. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991. xii + 179 pp. $19.93, ISBN 0-300-04873-4.) and The Tropic of Baseball: Baseball in the Dominican Republic. By Rob Ruck. (Westport: Meckler, 1991. xx + 205 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-88736-707-0.) Get access Warren Goldstein Warren Goldstein State University College of New York, Old Westhury, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxfo…
Tender Machos
This study examines the social and cross-cultural aspects of masculinity through an ethnographic assessment of a Mexican League baseball team. The institution and meaning of “machismo” are examined along three indices of emotion: expression of vulnerability and hurt, reactions to children, and expression of physicality. The view widely held by North Americans that Latino and Latin American men are one-dimensional machos is critiqued. It is argued…
Culture, Politics, and Baseball in the Dominican Republic
In examining baseball's cultural and ideological role in the Dominican Republic, it is important to consider the relations between the United States and the Dominican Republic, not only because of U.S. domination of the nation and of the sport's North American origins but because the present and future of the sport increasingly rely on Latin American (particularly Dominican) talent. What this means to Dominicans and how it plays itself out as spo…
Baseball on the Border
Baseball on the Border
Political science (11 obras) · Sports, Gender, and Society (10 obras) · Sociology (9 obras) · American Sports and Literature (8 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (6 obras) · Art (5 obras) · Gender Studies (5 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Politics (5 obras)