Alan Klein

Dominican Baseball: New Pride, Old Prejudice

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Produktbeschreibung

Alan Klein is a Professor of Sociology-Anthropology at Northeastern University. He is the author of Sugarball: The American Game, the Dominican Dream; Growing the Game: The Globalization of Major League Baseball; and Baseball on the Border: A Tale of Two Laredos.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Temple University Press
• New
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781439910870
• ISBN-10: 1439910871
• Artikelnr.: 39536774

Autorenporträt

Alan Klein is a Professor of Sociology-Anthropology at Northeastern University. He is the author of Sugarball: The American Game, the Dominican Dream; Growing the Game: The Globalization of Major League Baseball; and Baseball on the Border: A Tale of Two Laredos.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
 
Introduction
1 Thinking about the Global Commodity Chain
2 The Rise of the Academy System
3 A Nation of Buscones
4 Astín Jacobo and the "New Dominicans"
5 Demonizing Dominicans
6 "It Felt like the Marines All Over Again": The Battle for Dominican
Baseball
Conclusion
 
Notes
Index