(Un)Mapping the Stadium: Contextualizing Race and National Myth Making in Major League Baseball
Year: 2016
Type: dissertation
Abstract: This thesis examines how Major League Baseball functions as a pedagogy of citizenship by securing the white national subject through the consumption of racialized bodies. It remains critical to understand the productive geographies of sport in service of the nation through race and space. This paper explores the narratives of imperialism, nationalism, and militarism that are saturated in professional ballparks and how these patriotic national mythologies serve to produce the white national subject. An analysis of the Dominican training academy and the Latin American body is performed to demonstrate each as critical spaces producing race and nation in the context of Major League Baseball. These three spaces, the ballpark, the training academy, and the Latin American body, are explored and unmapped to understand the way Major League Baseball functions as a pedagogy of white national citizenship.
Source: TSpace (University of Toronto)
Author: Tiffany Gurprasad
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2558546987