| Description |
xvii, 249 pages ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Contributions to the study of popular culture, 0198-9871 ; no. 40 |
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Contributions to the study of popular culture. 0198-9871 ; no. 40
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| Contents |
Introduction / George Eisen -- 1. Early European Attitudes toward Native American Sports and Pastimes / George Eisen -- 2. Forty-Eighters and the Rise of the Turnverein Movement in America / Robert Knight Barney -- 3. A Home in the South: The Turners of Galveston, Texas, 1840-65 / K. B. Wamsley -- 4. The Shamrock and the Eagle: Irish Americans and Sport in the Nineteenth Century / Ralph C. Wilcox -- 5. Jews and Baseball: A Cultural Love Story / Eric Solomon -- 6. The Italian-American Sporting Experience / Carmelo Bazzano -- 7. The Recreation and Leisure Pursuits of Japanese Americans in World War II Internment Camps / Alison M. Wrynn -- 8. The Notion of Double-Consciousness and the Involvement of Black Athletes in American Sport / David K. Wiggins -- 9. Sport in Philadelphia's African-American Community, 1865-1900 / J. Thomas Jable -- 10. Sport and the Americanization of Ethnic Women in Chicago / Gerald R. Gems |
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11. Radical Immigrants and the Workers' Sports Federation of Canada, 1924-37 / Bruce Kidd -- 12. Sport and Social Mobility among African-American and Hispanic Athletes / Merrill J. Melnick and Donald Sabo |
| Analysis |
Sports History |
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United States |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Minorities in sports -- Canada -- History.
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Minorities in sports -- United States -- History.
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Popular culture -- Canada.
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Popular culture -- United States.
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| SUBJECT |
Canada http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79007233 -- Popular culture
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| Author |
Eisen, George, 1943-
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Wiggins, David Kenneth, 1951-
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| LC no. |
93050538 |
| ISBN |
0313288143 |
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