George Eisen

Ethnicity and Sport in North American History and Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

The editors use the unique lens of the history of sports to examine ethnic experiences in North America since 1840. Comprised of 12 original essays and an Introduction, it chronicles sport as a social institution through which various ethnic and racial groups attempted to find the way to social and psychological acceptance and cultural integration. Included are chapters on Native Americans, Irish-Americans, German-Americans, Canadians, African-Americans, Italian-Americans, Hispanics, and several more, showing how their sports participation also provided these communities with some measure of social mobility, self-esteem, and a shared pride.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9780313288142
• ISBN-10: 0313288143
• Artikelnr.: 43850353

Autorenporträt

George Eisen, David K. Wiggins

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction by George Eisen Early European Attitudes toward Native
American Sports and Pastimes by George Eisen For Identity, for Cause, for
Health, and Fitness: Forty-Eighters and the Rise of the Turnverein Movement
in America by Robert Knight Barney A Home In the South: The Turners of
Galveston, Texas, 1840-1865 by K.B. Wamsley The Shamrock and the Eagle:
Irish-Americans and Sport in the Nineteenth Century by Ralph C. Wilcox Jews
and Baseball: A Cultural Love Story by Eric Solomon The Italian-American
Sporting Experience by Carmelo Bazzano "Diversionary" Tactics: The
Recreation and Leisure Pursuits of Japanese Americans in World War II
Internment Camps by Alison M. Wrynn The Quest for Identity: The Notion of
Double-Consciousness and the Involvement of Black Athletes in American
Sport by David K. Wiggins Sport in Philadelphia's African-American
Community, 1865-1900 by J. Thomas Jable Sport and the Americanization of
Ethnic Women in Chicago by Gerald R. Gems "We Raced for Socks and
Sweaters--Not that Useless Bourgeois Stuff, Cups and Medals": Radical
Immigrants and the Workers' Sport Federation of Canada, 1924-37 by Bruce
Kidd Sport and Social Mobility among African-American and Hispanic Athletes
by Merrill J. Melnick and Donald Sabo