Sports and Training seen as Alternatives to 'Race Degeneration' during the first half of the 20th Century in Colombia

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Jair Hernando Álvarez Torres
José Tomás Cortés Díaz

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Sport and training are practices that have been thought and elaborated in different coordinates of the planet, however, their models remained anchored to the European cultural context until recent times. This article focuses on the analytical description of some conditioning factors of such times that promoted games, sports and training as possible solutions for the so-called decline of Colombian culture and race degeneration, particularly in the early 20th century. Intellectuals belonging to the Centennial Generation who sought a modernizing project for the country declared the race degeneration and started such debate. Literature review suggests that this group of elitist intellectuals had their feet in Colombia, but their perspectives and understandings focused in Europe and the United States; they sought to transform Colombia –culturally and socially–into a country of the old continent.

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Álvarez Torres, J. H., & Cortés Díaz, J. T. (2018). Sports and Training seen as Alternatives to ’Race Degeneration’ during the first half of the 20th Century in Colombia. Ciencias Sociales Y Educación, 7(13), 89-110. https://doi.org/10.22395/csye.v7n13a4

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Jair Hernando Álvarez Torres, Universidad de Medellín

Doctor en Historia de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Licenciado en Filosofía de la Universidad de Antioquia (Colombia). Con estudios Doctorales en Historia en la Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Argentina).Profesor de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas de la Universidad de Medellín (Colombia).

José Tomás Cortés Díaz, Universidad Católica Luis Amigó

Magíster en Educación de la Universidad de San Buenaventura, sede Medellín (Colombia). Especialista en Entrenamiento Deportivo de la Universidad de Antioquia (Colombia) y Licenciado en Educación Física dela misma universidad. Tecnólogo Deportivo del Politécnico Colombiano Jaime Isaza Cadavid (Colombia).Director del programa de Actividad Física y Deporte de la Universidad Católica Luis Amigó.

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