Sport Studies in the 21st Century: Amplifying the Latinx Experience in Curricula, Conversation, and Community

FAIN: AC-295660-24

Manhattanville College (Purchase, NY 10577-2131)
Amy Bass (Project Director: May 2023 to present)
Samantha White (Co Project Director: June 2023 to present)
Seth Tannenbaum (Co Project Director: June 2023 to present)

A three-year project to develop the teaching of Latinx communities in sport studies.

With Sport Studies in the 21st Century, we propose to enhance the humanities-centered study of sport at Manhattanville College through the lens of Latinx studies, exploring the social, political, historical, and cultural frameworks of sport in Latinx communities. The proposed project will create a speaker-in-residence series focused on Latinx scholarship and accompanied by cross-institutional learning clusters and experiential learning components. Its aim is to broaden scholarship and pedagogy of an understudied area and augment an all-encompassing liberal arts experience by leveraging a topic so many are wildly enthusiastic about: sport. Manhattanville's current Sport Studies curriculum and the broader fields of sport studies, Latinx studies, and American studies fall short in examining the impact of Latinx athletes and the role of sport in Latinx communities. The proposed project is meant as a corrective to this underrepresentation.