Crafting Patriotism for Global Dominance

America at the Olympics

Mark Dyreson, J. A. Mangan, Mark Dyreson , Boria Majumdar

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Routledge
15 August 2008

Social & cultural anthropology; Olympic games; Sports psychology

Series: Sport in the Global Society

In 2008 China plans to use the Olympic Games to remake its national identity in the global marketplace. In so doing China treads the path blazed by the United States. For more than a century the U.S. has used the Olympic Games to construct national identity, create communal memory, and craft patriotic mythology. From opening parades where the American team refuses to dip its flag in order to signal American exceptionalism to the closing ceremonies where the U.S. media trumpet that their team owes its medals not to superior athleticism but to the nation’s peerless social and political systems, Olympic Games have served as sites to bolster American nationalism. More than any other nation, the United States has politicized its Olympic participation. In the process a host of myths about American superiority in global encounters has emerged through the Olympics. In memorializing and mythologizing their Olympic teams Americans have revealed the contours of the racial, gender, and class dynamics that animate their peculiar nationhood. These essays explore the history of expressions of American national identity in Olympic arenas.

This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

By: Mark Dyreson
Series edited by: J. A. Mangan, Mark Dyreson, Boria Majumdar
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 530g
ISBN: 9780415445689
ISBN 10: 041544568X
Series: Sport in the Global Society
Pages: 198
Publication Date: 15 August 2008
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Pennsylvania State University, USA Formerly at the University of Strathclyde, UK La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia