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The American Marathon (Paperback, New Ed)
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The American Marathon (Paperback, New Ed)
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Boston established a footrace but New York City created a marathon
culture that annually draws tens of thousands of runners to each of
the major American events. The American Marathon is the first
in-depth study of the marathon as a cultural performance that has
as much power to unite communities across lines of race, ethnicity,
class, and gender as it does to empower individuals. This book
encompasses more than a century, from the fledgling days of the
footrace in the 1890s to the popular contemporary marathons that
have become corporate-sponsored institutions. Run in New York City
in 1896 and continued in Boston for the next ten years, the
marathon quickly became the event of the working-class athletes,
particularly Irish Americans. Other urban ethnic groups-Italians,
Jews, and African Americans who were unwelcome into the elite WASP
athletic dubs-formed their own running organizations. Once
emblematic of the immigrant experience, the marathon evolved to
express middle-class nationalism as these immigrants were being
assimilated. During the 1930s the Great Depression restricted
footracing, and anti-Semitism left important coaches and runners
without access to team support. The New York Pioneer Club, begun in
1936 as an African-American team, brought the tremendous energy of
post World War II Harlem to the American marathon of the 1950s.
Besides examining the ethnic influence on marathoning, Cooper also
explores the impact of the Cold War on this sport, when fitness and
endurance became matters of national pride. She shows how the Road
Runners Club of America first brought women and large numbers of
participant runners into long-distance footraces and, finally, how
corporate sponsorship and direct payments to athletes profoundly
changed the nature of this once-amateur sport.
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