This week was spent again mainly on my presentation. I am going first on Wednesday so I want to make sure I start off our group with a strong one. I created a script and have been rehearsing because I have had trouble presenting for as long as I can remember. I’ll work through it to give a good presentation on my final paper.
I got some great feedback during last week’s review session that I have begun to incorporate into my paper. First, I changed my title back to its original. I removed my geographical focus of Rome, and made the focus just Italy again. My title said “In Contemporary Italy” for most of the course, but then I changed it to “In Contemporary Rome” for a short while. Then, the person reading my paper suggesting changing Rome to Italy, so now my title is set in stone.
Last week I also discussed my paper topic with Professor Harvey Neptune, who I have for my history of global soccer class. Our class last week was based around racism in European soccer, so we had a great discussion about my paper. I am hoping to incorporate our reading from that class last week, “Accidental Racists: Experiences and Contradictions of Racism in Local Amsterdam Soccer Culture” by Floris Muller into my paper. It has a different geographical focus than my paper, but the article is conceptually rich and hammers home the point about racism having no singular source or remedy.