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White Ice - Race and the Making of Atlanta Hockey
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White Ice - Race and the Making of Atlanta Hockey
Series: Sports & Popular Culture
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Having skyrocketed from six to fourteen teams between 1966 and
1970, leaders of the National Hockey League had planned to wait a
few more years before expanding any further. But as its rivalry
with the World Hockey Association intensified, competition for
markets rose, and the race for continued expansion became too
urgent to ignore. Not to be outdone, the NHL introduced two new
teams in 1971: one in Long Island, New York, and one in Atlanta,
Georgia. For its own part, Atlanta had been watching as White
residents left the city for the suburbs over the course of the
1960s. As the turn of the decade approached, city leadership was
searching for ways to mitigate white flight and bring residents of
the surrounding suburbs back to the city center. So when a
stereotypically White sport came to the Deep South in 1971 in the
form of the Atlanta Flames, ownership saw a new opportunity to
appeal to White audiences. But the challenge would be selling a
game that was foreign to most of Atlanta's longtime sports fans.
Filling a significant gap in scholarly literature concerning race
and hockey within US history, White Ice: Race and the Making of
Atlanta Hockey is a response to two simple questions: How did a
cold-climate sport like hockey end up in a majority Black city in
the Deep South? And why did it come when it did? Over seven
chronological chapters, Thomas Aiello unpacks the history, culture,
and context surrounding these questions, teasing out what the story
of the Atlanta Flames can teach us about the NHL, Atlanta, race,
and the business of professional sports expansion.
General
Imprint: |
University of Tennessee Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Sports & Popular Culture |
Release date: |
2024 |
Authors: |
Thomas Aiello
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
224 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-62190-835-7 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-62190-835-6 |
Barcode: |
9781621908357 |
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