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The winner of three gold medals in track at the 1960 Olympic Games
in Rome, Wilma Rudolph has been portrayed and remembered across a
wide range of settings and sites over the past half-century. As an
African American female born into poverty whose childhood
disability left her temporarily unable to walk without the aid of a
leg brace, Rudolph captured our attention then and continues to
fascinate new generations of children and adults alike. The markers
of Rudolph’s identity, joined with her athletic success, create a
quintessential ragsto-riches tale, one repeatedly narrated over the
decades. (Re)Presenting Wilma Rudolph explores the major episodes
and sites of memory across the track legend’s life and death.
Analyzing newspaper and magazine accounts, dozens of children’s
books, and a television movie, among other materials, Liberti and
Smith highlight the range of ways meaning was constructed around
Rudolph and her accomplishments on the track. Rather than
atraditional biography, this book unpacks the collective memories
we create and share about the Olympian. A close reading of the
stories that are remembered and circulated about Rudolph not only
underscore the athlete’s agency but simultaneously minimize and
even erase the ways in which racism and sexism impacted her life.
The memorials honoring Rudolph tell us far more about the moment of
their creation and the storytellers than they do about the track
great.
San Francisco Bay Area Sports brings together fifteen essays
covering the issues, controversies, and personalities that have
emerged as northern Californians recreated and competed over the
last 150 years. The area's diversity, anti-establishment leanings,
and unique and beautiful natural surroundings are explored in the
context of a dynamic sporting past that includes events broadcast
to millions or activities engaged in by just a few. Professional
and college events are covered along with lesser-known entities
such as Oakland's public parks, tennis player and Bay Area native
Rosie Casals, environmentalism and hiking in Marin County, and the
origins of the Gay Games. Taken as a whole, this book clarifies how
sport is connected to identities based on sexuality, gender, race,
and ethnicity. Just as crucial, the stories here illuminate how
sport and recreation can potentially create transgressive spaces,
particularity in a place known for its nonconformity.
On football weekends in the United States, thousands of fans gather
in the parking lots outside of stadiums, where they park their
trucks, let down the gates, and begin a pregame ritual of drinking
and grilling. Tailgating, which began in the early 1900s as a
quaint picnic lunch outside of the stadium, has evolved into a
massive public social event with complex menus, extravagant
creative fare, and state-of-art grilling equipment. Unlike
traditional notions of the home kitchen, the blacktop is a highly
masculine culinary environment in which men and the food they cook
are often the star attractions. Gridiron Gourmet examines
tailgating as shown in television, film, advertising, and
cookbooks, and takes a close look at the experiences of those
tailgaters who are as serious about their brisket as they are about
cheering on their favorite team, demonstrating how and why the
gendered performances on the football field are often matched by
the intensity of the masculine displays in front of grills,
smokers, and deep fryers.
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