Art and Identity in Mexico, from Olmec Times to the Present

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 05.02.05

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Rationale
  2. Playing the Game
  3. Meaning of the Game
  4. Conflict Resolution
  5. Olympic Games
  6. Modern Olympic Games
  7. Sports and Athletics in the United States
  8. Sports, Athletics, and War
  9. 1968 Olympics
  10. Conflict Resolution and the 1968 Olympics
  11. Appendix # 1: Bul: A Mayan Game of Chance
  12. Appendix # 2
  13. Appendix # 3: The Maya Ballgame
  14. Annotated Bibliography
  15. Web Sites
  16. Appendix # 4: Teacher Resource
  17. Appendix # 5: Standards

Conflict and Resolution through Sports: A Question of Civil Rights: The 1968 Olympics and Tlatelolco

Carol M. Petett

Published September 2005

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Annotated Bibliography

Library of Congress. The Olympic Games, 1980: Moscow and Lake Placid. : MacMillan Pub. Co, A history of the Olympic Games with special emphasis on the 1980 Olympics

Espy, Richard. The Politics of the Olympic Games. : Univ. of Calif. Press, 1979. Sport as a tool of diplomacy, by sending athletes abroad countries establish a basis for diplomatic relations and the adverse affects of canceling international events.

Hill, Christopher. Olympic Politics Athens to Atlanta 1896-1966. 2nd. ed.: Manchester Univ. Press, History of the Olympic Games including contributions by Dr. Brookes, Otto Zapas and Baron de Coubertin

Goodhart, M.P., Philip, and Christopher Chataway. War Without Weapons. : W.H. Allen & cos, 1968. Observations of Konrad Lorenz on contemporary society's lack of insufficient discharge of aggressive behavior and the increase in violence in society

Snyder, Eldon , and Elmer Spreitzer. Social Aspects of Sports. : Prentice Hall, Sports in school is necessary to transmit the values of the larger society.

Welch, Paula D. History of American Physical Education and Sport. 3rd. ed. Gainesville: Charles C. Thompson, 2004. The importance of sports to help prepare a physically fit youth for war.

Swaddling, Judith . The Ancient Olympic Games. Austin: Univ. Texas, 1980. Background information on the Olympic Games at Athens

Whittington, Michael. The Sport of Life and Death: The Mesoamerican Ballgame. New York: London; Thames: , 2001.

Bunch III, Lonnie G., and Louie Robinson. The Black Olympians, 1904-1984: July 22, 1984-January 15, 1985 (essay.... Los Angeles: Afro-American Museum, 1984.

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