Maureen Margaret Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 4105960 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maureen Margaret Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maureen Margaret |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH M M |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Sacramento |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Mapping America's Sporting Landscape
This article examines three sport statues in the United States: Pat Tillman, National Football League player and American soldier; Tommie Smith and John Carlos, 1968 Olympians; and Wilma Rudolph, the first American woman to win three gold medals in track and field at the 1960 Olympic Games. Each statue was analysed in material culture terms as a hegemonic representative of the dominant types of sport statue found in the USA and in terms of their …
So You Can See How the Other Half Lives
MTV's popular television series 'Cribs' displays the homes of famous athletes and entertainers. 'Cribs' presents these male athletes and their households as exemplars of 'making it.' This article examines the representation of male athletes and how various types of 'successful' masculinity are conflated with race and class. We found two dominant models of successful masculinity, James Bond and Cool Pose. 'Cribs' clearly demarcates between Black a…
Revisiting South Africa and the Olympic Movement
Reginald S. Alexander, an IOC member in Kenya since 1960, wrote hundreds of letters to three International Olympic Committee Presidents between the years 1961 and 1986. His correspondence with Avery Brundage, Lord Killanin and Juan Antonio Samaranch focused on the role of Africa in the Olympic Movement and later evolved into a campaign to re-examine the member status of South Africa in the Olympic Movement after its expulsion in 1970. Alexander a…
So You Can See How the Other Half Lives
MTV's popular television series 'Cribs' displays the homes of famous athletes and entertainers. 'Cribs' presents these male athletes and their households as exemplars of 'making it.' This article examines the representation of male athletes and how various types of 'successful' masculinity are conflated with race and class. We found two dominant models of successful masculinity, James Bond and Cool Pose. 'Cribs' clearly demarcates between Black a…
Mapping America's Sporting Landscape
This article examines three sport statues in the United States: Pat Tillman, National Football League player and American soldier; Tommie Smith and John Carlos, 1968 Olympians; and Wilma Rudolph, the first American woman to win three gold medals in track and field at the 1960 Olympic Games. Each statue was analysed in material culture terms as a hegemonic representative of the dominant types of sport statue found in the USA and in terms of their …
Revisiting South Africa and the Olympic Movement
Reginald S. Alexander, an IOC member in Kenya since 1960, wrote hundreds of letters to three International Olympic Committee Presidents between the years 1961 and 1986. His correspondence with Avery Brundage, Lord Killanin and Juan Antonio Samaranch focused on the role of Africa in the Olympic Movement and later evolved into a campaign to re-examine the member status of South Africa in the Olympic Movement after its expulsion in 1970. Alexander a…
Revisiting South Africa and the Olympic Movement
Reginald S. Alexander, an IOC member in Kenya since 1960, wrote hundreds of letters to three International Olympic Committee Presidents between the years 1961 and 1986. His correspondence with Avery Brundage, Lord Killanin and Juan Antonio Samaranch focused on the role of Africa in the Olympic Movement and later evolved into a campaign to re-examine the member status of South Africa in the Olympic Movement after its expulsion in 1970. Alexander a…
So You Can See How the Other Half Lives
MTV's popular television series 'Cribs' displays the homes of famous athletes and entertainers. 'Cribs' presents these male athletes and their households as exemplars of 'making it.' This article examines the representation of male athletes and how various types of 'successful' masculinity are conflated with race and class. We found two dominant models of successful masculinity, James Bond and Cool Pose. 'Cribs' clearly demarcates between Black a…
Mapping America's Sporting Landscape
This article examines three sport statues in the United States: Pat Tillman, National Football League player and American soldier; Tommie Smith and John Carlos, 1968 Olympians; and Wilma Rudolph, the first American woman to win three gold medals in track and field at the 1960 Olympic Games. Each statue was analysed in material culture terms as a hegemonic representative of the dominant types of sport statue found in the USA and in terms of their …
Art (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (3 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works)