"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.
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