Category Archive: sports

Football Intersectionality: The Collision of Ethnicity, Class, and Memory in "My Father and Other Working Class Football Heroes"

If one believes the authors of Soccernomics, the provincialism of the nation’s working class remains one of the […]

Recreation Revolution: Working Class Youth and the Creation of Skate Culture

Children took the ruins of the 20th century and made art out of them. – Skip Engblom – […]

The Cruel Economy of Soccernomics: Capital, Players, and Football in the 21st Century

In 2000’s The Many Headed Hydra, historians Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker explored the transnational revolutionary Atlantic world’s […]

Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Footballers: American Antipathy toward Soccer

Don’t waste your time on soccer kid it’s a game for commie pansies … – Sports columnist Dick […]