{"id":3103,"date":"2026-04-11T14:03:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T14:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/transnationalhistory.net\/doing\/?p=3103"},"modified":"2026-04-11T14:03:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T14:03:45","slug":"week-10-blog-project-progress-and-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/transnationalhistory.net\/doing\/2026\/04\/11\/week-10-blog-project-progress-and-reflections\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 10\/reading week blog: Project progress and reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Having received feedback from my project proposal, and the conference presentation and final essay nearing closer, I thought I would take this reading week to build upon my project, analyse my feedback, and begin to delve into more detail on the project. Furthermore, with my short essay serving as a wider literature review on race and sport, I feel I now have a better understanding of the field, and how it has developed, and can build this into my project, within the frame of race and golf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Firstly, whilst it was outlined with my project, I feel I can now confidently some up my project argument within a sentence:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The racial issues withing golf have changed over time, and while figures like Tiger Woods have impacted the image of golf on a transnational scale, deeper, entrenched class and racial barriers still exist, and continue to shape access to the sport.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Being able to condense my argument like this will prove valuable for the conference presentation, due to its time limited nature, and provides a clear and concise roadmap for those reading or hearing about my project. Beyond this, I have narrowed down my key topics to speak on in the presentation. These include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>my condensed argument (above)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The context of golf and exclusion<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Woods as a breakthrough figure, and his transnational effect (impacts and limitations)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Junior golf and wider structural racial issues<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Evidence that golf has changed more in image yet less in structure<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus, from this I have given myself key areas to read up on further to help construct my conference presentation. These include Golfs exclusionary history, Tiger woods and representation and how the media framed his impacts, and structure and access within golf \u2013 like Junior golf, participation, cost barriers and club culture. If I can narrow down key texts and scholarly views on these key areas, this will help analyse the changing nature of racial issues within the game of golf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Building on the feedback from my proposal, my comments said that there was a risk of this becoming a \u2018love affair\u2019 between myself and Mr Woods. However, the comments said I had made an effort to analyse the topic through an analytical lens. As Mr Woods has already had his fair share of affairs, I want to continue this and not let my personal connection to golf take over. Thus, as my project continues, I will constantly try to step back and ensure that I am analysing the issues of race and golf as a historian, not as a golfer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having received feedback from my project proposal, and the conference presentation and final essay nearing closer, I thought I would take this reading week to build upon my project, analyse my feedback, and begin to delve into more detail on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5wNtZ-O3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/transnationalhistory.net\/doing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/transnationalhistory.net\/doing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/transnationalhistory.net\/doing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transnationalhistory.net\/doing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transnationalhistory.net\/doing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/transnationalhistory.net\/doing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3105,"href":"https:\/\/transnationalhistory.net\/doing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103\/revisions\/3105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/transnationalhistory.net\/doing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transnationalhistory.net\/doing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transnationalhistory.net\/doing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}