Shifting Currents: A World History of Swimming Carr Karen Eva
Shifting Currents: A World History of Swimming Carr Karen Eva A deep dive into the history of aquatics that exposes centuries-old tensions of race, gender, and power at the root of many contemporary…
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Shifting Currents: A World History of Swimming Carr Karen Eva
A deep dive into the history of aquatics that exposes centuries-old tensions of race, gender, and power at the root of many contemporary swimming controversies.Shifting Currents is an original and comprehensive history of swimming. Using archaeological, textual, and art-historical sources, Karen Eva Carr shows how the water simultaneously attracted and repelled these northerners--swimming seemed uncanny, related to witchcraft and sin. It examines the tension that arose when non-swimming northerners met African and Southeast Asian swimmers.
They imagined that swimming would bring them health and demonstrate their scientific modernity. Europeans used Africans' and Native Americans' swimming skills to justify enslaving them, but northerners also wanted to claim water's power for themselves. As Carr reveals, this unresolved tension still sexualizes women's swimming and
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