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Full Name: Laurent Dubois
Website: http://duboisl2.wordpress.com/
Details: I am Marcello Lotti Professor of Romance Studies and History at Duke University. A specialist on the history and culture of France and the Caribbean, notably Haiti, I am the author of Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France. I founded the Soccer Politics blog in the Fall of 2009 as part of a Duke University course called "World Cup and World Politics," whose students helped me develop the site.

Posts by dubois:

19 Feb 2011 Football and Accusation
19 Jan 2011 Zidane Goes Home for Qatar
02 Dec 2010 Elsewhere
28 Nov 2010 Yellow and Green in Haiti: A Footnote to the Election Crisis
21 Nov 2010 Kicking the Silence
20 Nov 2010 World Cup Debriefing Featuring Achille Mbembe
17 Nov 2010 Karim! Redux: France 2, England 1
09 Nov 2010 Watching Ghana Beat the U.S. with Mick and Bill
27 Oct 2010 Samba Football, German Style
14 Oct 2010 Karim!

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- Brittney Griner, Jason Collins and the Sex of a Story May 1, 2013
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- Jason Collins Comes Out (and Leans In) April 29, 2013
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