Making Men for Brazil’s Beau2ful Game: Masculinity, Race, and Soccer, 1950-‐1978
Dr. Roger KiGleson, Williams College Wednesday, October 21, 2015 2:55 p.m. -‐ 4:20 p.m. Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library
The La2n American and Caribbean Studies Program presents speaker Roger KiGleson, professor of History at Williams College and author of The Country of Football who will analyze masculinity, race and soccer in Brazil. As Brazilian officials sought to modernize their na2onal game in the mid-‐20th century, they debated what it meant to have the na2on represented by a largely Afro-‐descendent group of players. Their aGempts to resolve this issue involved the latest sports science as well as changing no2ons of race and masculinity in Brazil. Individual players met these projects with asser2ons of their own rights, their own exper2se, and their own dignity. In the process of modernizing Brazil, they contested understandings of what it meant to be a man of color.