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Sports Matters - Race, Recreation, and Culture (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,556
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Sports Matters - Race, Recreation, and Culture (Hardcover): John Bloom, Michael Willard

Sports Matters - Race, Recreation, and Culture (Hardcover)

John Bloom, Michael Willard

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"Most of the contributions strongly project the authors' perceptions of the role of race on their subjects, and essays should elicit lively discussions in the classroom."
--"CHOICE"

Frederick Douglass liked to say of West Indian boxer Peter Jackson that "Peter is doing a great deal with his fists to solve the Negro question." His comment reflects the possibilities for social transformation that he saw in the emerging modern sports culture. Indeed, as the twentieth century developed, sports have become an important cultural terrain over which various racial groups have contested, defined, and represented their racial, national, and inter-ethnic identities.

Sports Matters brings critical attention to the centrality of race within the politics and pleasures of the massive sports culture that developed in the U.S. during the past century and a half. The contributors collected here address such issues as popular representations of blacks in sports. They consider baseball--from Nisei players in Oregon to Mexican-Americans in Los Angeles. And they look at the use of warrior imagery in representations of Native American athletes and the evolution of black expressive style within basketball.

Sports Matters challenges our presumptions about sports, illuminating in the process the complexities of race and gender as they relate to popular culture.

Contributors include Amy Bass, John Bloom, Annie Gilbert Coleman, Gena Caponi, Montye Fuse, Randy Hanson, Michiko Hase, George Lipsitz, Keith Miller, Sharon O'Brien, Connie Razza, Sam Regalado, Greg Rodriguez, Julio Rodriguez, Michael Willard, and Henry Yu.

General

Imprint: New York University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: September 2002
First published: September 2002
Editors: John Bloom • Michael Willard
Dimensions: 229 x 153 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-9881-2
Categories: Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > General
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General
LSN: 0-8147-9881-0
Barcode: 9780814798812

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