El judo llega a California

Judo vs. lucha en el oeste de los Estados Unidos, 1900-1920

Bibliographic Data

ID21224413
AuthorsMatt Hlinak (Northwestern University, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume4
Issue3
Pages8
Publication date2012-07-16
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevista de Artes Marciales Asiaticas (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2174-0747 • E-ISSN: 2174-0747
PublisherUniversity of Leon (PUBLISHER • ES)
DOI10.18002/rama.v4i3.174
OpenAlexW1555675321
LanguageEN
References cited10

This essay analyzes Japanese-American immigration into the American West through the prism of athletics, specifically by examining a series of contests between judoka and wrestlers from 1900 to 1920 in California. The popularity of these matches demonstrates the complex relationship between Japanese-Americans and the dominant European-American culture of the western states during this period. This complexity will be shown first by looking at the way in which martial arts are closely linked to national and ethnic identity. The strong barnstorming tradition in both judo and wrestling led to a number of matches of great interest to European-Americans of the period. These matches appealed to an interest in Japanese culture, a desire to see stereotypes reinforced, and nationalist tendencies during an age of uncertainty

Aesthetics · Art · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Humanities · Immigration · Martial arts · National identity · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Popularity · Sociology · Anthropology · Demography · Gender Studies · History · Law · Martial Arts: Techniques, Psychology, and Education · Sports and Physical Education Studies · Sports, Gender, and Society

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