Description |
vii, 368 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Duke Kahanamoku's body : biography of Hawai'i / Michael Nevin Willard -- Jump for joy : jump blues, dance, and basketball in 1930s African America / Gena Caponi-Tabery -- Baseball along the Columbia : the Nisei, their community, their sport in Northern Oregon / Samuel O. Regalado -- Mexican American baseball : masculinity, racial struggle, and labor politics in Southern California, 1930-1950 / Jose M. Alamillo -- Jazzing the basepaths : Jackie Robinson and African American aesthetics / Montye Fuse and Keith Miller -- Unbearable whiteness of skiing / Annie Gilbert Coleman -- "We want a pennant, not a white team" : how Boston's ethnic and racial history shaped the Red Sox / Sharon O'Brien -- Whose broad stripes and bright stars? Race, nation, and power at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics / Amy Bass -- Documenting myth : racial representation in Leon Gast's When we were kings / Julio Rodriguez -- Silence of the Rams : how St. Louis school children subsidize the Super Bowl champs / George Lipsitz -- Warriors and thieves : appropriations of the warrior motif in representations of Native American athletes / John Bloom and Randy Hanson -- Running with her head down : Oprah Winfrey and middle-class black women's discourses of fitness / Connie M. Razza -- Saving face, place, and race : Oscar De La Hoya and the "All-American" dreams of U.S. boxing / Greg Rodriguez -- Race in soccer as a global sport / Michiko Hase -- Tiger Woods at the center of history : looking back at the twentieth century through the lenses of race, sports, and mass consumption / Henry Yu. |
Subject |
Discrimination in sports -- United States -- History.
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Sports -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
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Racism in popular culture -- United States -- History.
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Added Author |
Bloom, John, 1962-
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Willard, Michael Nevin.
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ISBN |
0814798810 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0814798829 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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