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- Title
Lost in Translation: Reverted Black Panamanian Sporting Networks.
- Authors
Wallace, Javier L.
- Abstract
In this essay, primarily tracing the memory of the author's father, the author connects the ways Black Panamanians of West Indian ancestry used their athletic talents within a de jure racially segregated US Panama Canal Zone to forge opportunities with HBCU athletic programs in the US South. Black physical educators and coaches forged these connections to assist Black Panamanian youth in circumventing the discriminatory treatment within the PCZ and the Republic of Panama. Also, this essay focuses on the decline of the transnational athletic pipelines due to the reversion of parts of the PCZ and the closure of the predominately Black segregated schools. This essay argues that translating community names and institutions from English to Spanish during the reversion was part of a larger Panamanian mestizo nationalism project that was forcing a singular Spanish-speaking Panamanian ideology, which played a significant role in the pipeline's decline.
- Subjects
PANAMA; CANAL Zone; SCHOOL-to-prison pipeline; PHYSICAL education teachers; BLACK youth; DISCRIMINATION (Sociology); COMMUNITIES; FATHER-child relationship; SEGREGATION in education; HISTORICALLY Black colleges &; universities
- Publication
Southern Cultures, 2023, Vol 29, Issue 2, p24
- ISSN
1068-8218
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/scu.2023.a899707