Representing the Nation analyzes Mexico City’s staging of the 1968 Olympic Games and explains how international criticism over its competence re-ignited a series of long-standing stereotypes, prejudices, and divisions within Mexican society.
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Place: UK
Publication Year: 2016-02-28
Language: English
Number of Pages: 192
Edition: 1
Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
Tracing development of scientific sociology from Comte onwards, this book provides a narrative history of figures, ideas, and schools that lie behind ..