The purpose of this website is to serve as a teaching and learning vehicle for students and the instructor in courses on sports taught at Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut) by Prof. Luis Figueroa–Martínez.

The crowd at a Spanish “La Liga” football game during the pre-game ceremony. Source: nye.com (public domain)

Originally intended to serve this purpose for a Fall 2013 seminar titled “Sports, Race and Nationalism,” for a variety of reasons it is not until now (January 2014) that I have been able to incorporate it into another course, this time on “Soccer, Race and Nationalism,” that I’m teaching during Trinity’s first J-Term, a three-year curricular experiment at the college.

We invite everyone to explore the topics examined in the course and the ideas expressed by its students. Continue reading →