Derek Charles Catsam
Biographic Data
| ID | 279866 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Derek Charles Catsam |
| GIVEN NAMES | Derek Charles |
| FAMILY NAME | Catsam |
| SIGNATURE | CATSAM D C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas of the Permian Basin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3788-9635 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sports and the American Presidency
There is nothing that American politicians like more than to come across as actual human beings rather than the soulless automatons that so many of them seem to be. And there seems to be nothing that allows them to look more human-like than being, or at least seeming to be, a sports fan, or better yet, an athlete themselves. In particular, presidents and presidential contenders use sports, and, if they have them, their own sporting backgrounds, t…
Animated by Uncertainty
Welcome to Wrexham (2022)
In the last two decades, American billionaires (and a few interloping paltry hundred millionaires) have bought majority or minority stakes in European football teams, ranging from some of the giant names in the sport (AC Milan, Olympique Marseilles, Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool) to teams in lower levels within the football pyramids of Britain, Spain, France, Italy, and Germany and in smaller leagues across Europe. So in a sense, two rich…
Introduction to Safundi special issue
This brief essay provides an introduction to this special issue on anti-apartheid movements on college and university campuses
Safundi book notes
On race, sport, and politics in South Africa’s past and present
There has been a steady emergence of quality writing about sport, politics, and the intersection between them in South African society in recent decades. This review essay looks at a number of recent works on soccer, rugby, and cricket, placing them within a larger context of race, sport, and politics in South Africa’s past and present
Moments of Impact
Remembering Bernard Magubane
Professor Bernard Makhosezwe Magubane, who passed away at his home in Fourways, Johannesburg, on 12 April 2013, gave the lie to any idea that academics live cloistered in ivory towers removed from
Safundi Book Notes
This is a new semi-regular feature on books and other media. Given the wide geographic, thematic, disciplinary, and chronological range that Safundi covers, there are always more new books, documen
The End of Amateurism in American Track and Field
Book Review| April 01 2012 The End of Amateurism in American Track and Field Turrini, Joseph M. The End of Amateurism in American Track and Field. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010. Pp. viii+272. Notes, index, and bibliography. $28.00 pb. Derek Catsam Derek Catsam University of Texas of the Permian Basin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2012) 39 (1): 202–205. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsp…
Rivals
Book Review| April 01 2011 Rivals: Legendary Matchups That Made Sports History Wiggins, David K., and Pierre R. Rodgers, eds. Rivals: Legendary Matchups That Made Sports History. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2010. Pp. xx+465. Notes, index, and photographs. $29.95 pb, $75.00 hb. Derek Charles Catsam Derek Charles Catsam University of Texas of the Permian Basin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Spo…
Introduction
Safundi's readers are well aware that at the heart of this journal's endeavor, the attempt to understand South Africa and the United States through a comparative and transnational lens, are the tru
Marching in the “Dark City”
In early January 1957, South Africa's Public Utility Transport Corporation (PUTCO) announced that it would be raising bus fares by one penny, from 4d to 5d. Spokesmen for the parastatal organizatio
The Civil Rights Movement and the Presidency in the Hot Years of the Cold War
The two most important phenomena that the United States confronted in the quarter century after the end of World War II were the Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement. Four presidents, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson had to deal with the most critical years of both the struggle for racial justice and the challenge of Communist totalitarianism. This historiographical article seeks to situate each of t…
The Ticket to Freedom
Before Brown
Before Brown: Civil Rights and White Backlash in the Modern South Get access Feldman Glenn, ed. Before Brown: Civil Rights and White Backlash in the Modern South. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2004. xiii, 430 pp. $27.95 (paper), $60.00 (cloth). Derek Charles Catsam Derek Charles Catsam University of Texas of the Permian Basin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Vol…
When we are tired we shall rest
This article looks at some of the practical, methodological, and disciplinary issues connected to comparative and transnational history through the lens of bus boycotts in South Africa and the United States in the 1950s. Comparative history by its very nature requires historians to transcend both the restrictive boundaries that the profession sometimes imposes as well as a fundamentally interdisciplinary approach to scholarship. Yet as the sugges…
The Comparative Imagination
The author briefly discusses George Fredrickson's White Supremacy, followed by an investigation of how Fredrickson's research has cast a significant shadow on some of the most vibrant trends in recent scholarship, including transnational studies and even a particular strand of works on diplomatic and international history
What's Greatness Got to Do with It
The author continues a discussion on Martin Luther King Jr.'s lasting legacy in South Africa in the 1980s, begun with the publication of Lewis V. Baldwin's article in Safundi Issue 16, “Soaring on the Wings of Pride: Martin Luther King Jr. and the ‘New’ South Africa.”
Choosing the Wings on Which One Soars
The author responds and offers a critique of Lewis V. Baldwin's article in Issue 16 of Safundi, “Soaring on the Wings of Pride: Martin Luther King Jr. and the ‘New’ South Africa.” The author questions the continued relevance of the United States’ civil rights history to South Africa today, that the article “tends to overemphasize the importance of the American racist past for South Africans.”
Brave New Worlds
Using Robert Kennedy's 1966 speech at the University of Cape Town as a method of introduction, the author discusses his experience teaching a comparative U.S. and South African course and provides both the rationale for such a course and the syllabus used in the classroom
The Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr
Book reviewed in this article: The Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Boundaries of Law, Politics and Religion by Lewis V. Baldwin. Against Us, But For Us: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the State by Michael G. Long. Macon
Introduction
Safundi's readers are well aware that at the heart of this journal's endeavor, the attempt to understand South Africa and the United States through a comparative and transnational lens, are the tru
Remembering Bernard Magubane
Professor Bernard Makhosezwe Magubane, who passed away at his home in Fourways, Johannesburg, on 12 April 2013, gave the lie to any idea that academics live cloistered in ivory towers removed from
Marching in the “Dark City”
In early January 1957, South Africa's Public Utility Transport Corporation (PUTCO) announced that it would be raising bus fares by one penny, from 4d to 5d. Spokesmen for the parastatal organizatio
The Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr
Book reviewed in this article: The Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Boundaries of Law, Politics and Religion by Lewis V. Baldwin. Against Us, But For Us: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the State by Michael G. Long. Macon
Brave New Worlds
Using Robert Kennedy's 1966 speech at the University of Cape Town as a method of introduction, the author discusses his experience teaching a comparative U.S. and South African course and provides both the rationale for such a course and the syllabus used in the classroom
What's Greatness Got to Do with It
The author continues a discussion on Martin Luther King Jr.'s lasting legacy in South Africa in the 1980s, begun with the publication of Lewis V. Baldwin's article in Safundi Issue 16, “Soaring on the Wings of Pride: Martin Luther King Jr. and the ‘New’ South Africa.”
Choosing the Wings on Which One Soars
The author responds and offers a critique of Lewis V. Baldwin's article in Issue 16 of Safundi, “Soaring on the Wings of Pride: Martin Luther King Jr. and the ‘New’ South Africa.” The author questions the continued relevance of the United States’ civil rights history to South Africa today, that the article “tends to overemphasize the importance of the American racist past for South Africans.”
The Comparative Imagination
The author briefly discusses George Fredrickson's White Supremacy, followed by an investigation of how Fredrickson's research has cast a significant shadow on some of the most vibrant trends in recent scholarship, including transnational studies and even a particular strand of works on diplomatic and international history
Marching in the “Dark City”
In early January 1957, South Africa's Public Utility Transport Corporation (PUTCO) announced that it would be raising bus fares by one penny, from 4d to 5d. Spokesmen for the parastatal organizatio
The Civil Rights Movement and the Presidency in the Hot Years of the Cold War
The two most important phenomena that the United States confronted in the quarter century after the end of World War II were the Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement. Four presidents, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson had to deal with the most critical years of both the struggle for racial justice and the challenge of Communist totalitarianism. This historiographical article seeks to situate each of t…
The Ticket to Freedom
Before Brown
Before Brown: Civil Rights and White Backlash in the Modern South Get access Feldman Glenn, ed. Before Brown: Civil Rights and White Backlash in the Modern South. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2004. xiii, 430 pp. $27.95 (paper), $60.00 (cloth). Derek Charles Catsam Derek Charles Catsam University of Texas of the Permian Basin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Vol…
When we are tired we shall rest
This article looks at some of the practical, methodological, and disciplinary issues connected to comparative and transnational history through the lens of bus boycotts in South Africa and the United States in the 1950s. Comparative history by its very nature requires historians to transcend both the restrictive boundaries that the profession sometimes imposes as well as a fundamentally interdisciplinary approach to scholarship. Yet as the sugges…
Introduction
Safundi's readers are well aware that at the heart of this journal's endeavor, the attempt to understand South Africa and the United States through a comparative and transnational lens, are the tru
Rivals
Book Review| April 01 2011 Rivals: Legendary Matchups That Made Sports History Wiggins, David K., and Pierre R. Rodgers, eds. Rivals: Legendary Matchups That Made Sports History. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2010. Pp. xx+465. Notes, index, and photographs. $29.95 pb, $75.00 hb. Derek Charles Catsam Derek Charles Catsam University of Texas of the Permian Basin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Spo…
The End of Amateurism in American Track and Field
Book Review| April 01 2012 The End of Amateurism in American Track and Field Turrini, Joseph M. The End of Amateurism in American Track and Field. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010. Pp. viii+272. Notes, index, and bibliography. $28.00 pb. Derek Catsam Derek Catsam University of Texas of the Permian Basin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2012) 39 (1): 202–205. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsp…
Safundi Book Notes
This is a new semi-regular feature on books and other media. Given the wide geographic, thematic, disciplinary, and chronological range that Safundi covers, there are always more new books, documen
Remembering Bernard Magubane
Professor Bernard Makhosezwe Magubane, who passed away at his home in Fourways, Johannesburg, on 12 April 2013, gave the lie to any idea that academics live cloistered in ivory towers removed from
Moments of Impact
On race, sport, and politics in South Africa’s past and present
There has been a steady emergence of quality writing about sport, politics, and the intersection between them in South African society in recent decades. This review essay looks at a number of recent works on soccer, rugby, and cricket, placing them within a larger context of race, sport, and politics in South Africa’s past and present
Safundi book notes
Introduction to Safundi special issue
This brief essay provides an introduction to this special issue on anti-apartheid movements on college and university campuses
Animated by Uncertainty
Welcome to Wrexham (2022)
In the last two decades, American billionaires (and a few interloping paltry hundred millionaires) have bought majority or minority stakes in European football teams, ranging from some of the giant names in the sport (AC Milan, Olympique Marseilles, Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool) to teams in lower levels within the football pyramids of Britain, Spain, France, Italy, and Germany and in smaller leagues across Europe. So in a sense, two rich…
Sports and the American Presidency
There is nothing that American politicians like more than to come across as actual human beings rather than the soulless automatons that so many of them seem to be. And there seems to be nothing that allows them to look more human-like than being, or at least seeming to be, a sports fan, or better yet, an athlete themselves. In particular, presidents and presidential contenders use sports, and, if they have them, their own sporting backgrounds, t…
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