Professor Robert Irwin gave a lecture about the direction of the varied cultural study and interdisciplinary research method in general term, which sports research implies under the title “Latin America’s Sports and Nationalism”. He explained how sports was introduced to Latin America through the imperialistic governing process and enumerated some misused cases of sports in some countries as to its political needs. Particularly, the US Latino Sports star was mentioned as a clear means of expressing antagonistic emotions among the white supremacy and Mexican-American ethno-nationalism. Professor Irwin pointed out that due to the fact that sports is an area where hidden prejudice and power between social citizenship and racism virtually clashes, it is needed to further develop the cultural studies in the future. The series of lecture was organized by the Institute of Latin American Study.
