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.
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