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The Sports Revolution - How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics (Hardcover)
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The Sports Revolution - How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics (Hardcover)
Series: The Texas Bookshelf
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In the 1960s and 1970s, America experienced a sports revolution.
New professional sports franchises and leagues were established,
new stadiums were built, football and basketball grew in
popularity, and the proliferation of television enabled people
across the country to support their favorite teams and athletes
from the comfort of their homes. At the same time, the civil rights
and feminist movements were reshaping the nation, broadening the
boundaries of social and political participation. The Sports
Revolution tells how these forces came together in the Lone Star
State. Tracing events from the end of Jim Crow to the 1980s, Frank
Guridy chronicles the unlikely alliances that integrated
professional and collegiate sports and launched women's tennis. He
explores the new forms of inclusion and exclusion that emerged
during the era, including the role the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders
played in defining womanhood in the age of second-wave feminism.
Guridy explains how the sexual revolution, desegregation, and
changing demographics played out both on and off the field as he
recounts how the Washington Senators became the Texas Rangers and
how Mexican American fans and their support for the Spurs fostered
a revival of professional basketball in San Antonio. Guridy argues
that the catalysts for these changes were undone by the same forces
of commercialization that set them in motion and reveals that, for
better and for worse, Texas was at the center of America's
expanding political, economic, and emotional investments in sport.
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