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HIST 3P18 - American Pop Culture
Brock University History
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History
Undergraduate 2
04/07/2016

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Term
Wild West Shows
Definition

Significance:

Established Image of West

Exports Vision of Western World

Example of American Culture's Racism

Negative effect of Natives

Reaction of Reformers

 

What It Is:

In 1883, BBC took the character Buffalo Bill Cody and created the first Wild West Show. These shows eventually spread across Europe, Canada, and Australia.

Term
Minstrel Shows
Definition

Significance:

American Culture's Racism

 North and South entertainment

'Sharing' of Black Culture

Cultural Appropriation

 

What it was:

  Thomas Rice in 1828

3 act performance -1840s

Show portraying mimicry of Black People/Culture

Term
Vaudeville
Definition

Significance:

American Culture's Racism

 North and South entertainment

'Sharing' of Black Culture

Cultural Appropriation

 

What It Was:

Multiple unrelated acts on the same bill. Evolved from Minstrel Shows in 1920s

Term
Social Darwinism
Definition

Significance:

Foundation for racism with sports industry

Push of masculinity/manliness within America

 

What it is:

The idea that a race, Anglo-Saxon whites, are biologically and mentally superior to other races because of evolution

Term
Leisure Time
Definition

Significance:

Technological Advancement

Increase Amusment

Increase Sports

Decrease in Work Hours

Term
Cycling
Definition

Significance:

Paved way for Automobile

Women and Sports

Racisms evolution of Sports

 

Information:

Albert Pope - 1873

Safety Bike - 1887

Recreation and Utliran Bike - 1890s

 

Term
Marshal Taylor
Definition

1899 World Cycling Champion

Was African American

Sports not initially segregated

Term
Boxing
Definition

Began as Gentlemen's Club

By 1882 transition from Aristocratic to Immigrant Associated

 

Significance:

Racism in American Sports

Racism in American Culture

Increase Liesure

 

 

Term
John Sullivan
Definition

Boxing World Champion 1882

Irish Immigrant

Refusal to Fight Peter Jackson due to race

Term

Jack Johnson


 

Definition

First Black Boxing Heavyweight Champion 1908

Refused to fight black fighters

Unliked by Booker T. Washington

Charged under Mann act 1912&1913

Term
Baseball
Definition

Origins in 'rounders' 17th century English game

Game of gentlemen and elites

Civil war -> past time in camps

Rules unified in 1860s

1876 National League made

1901 - American League

1884 - becomes white man's game

Moses 'Fleet' Walker - 1884

Jackie Robinson - 1947

Term
Albert Spalding
Definition

Owner of Chicago White Stockings

Refused to let his team play against African Americans

 

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