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Sport and global cultures volume 3
Pub. Date:
[2011]
Edition:
1st ed
Language:
English
Description:
Sport, Race, and Ethnicity: Narratives of Difference and Diversity is a provocative collection that brings together leading international historians, sociologists, political scientists, and cultural theorists who examine sport as an arena for intergroup diversity and the negotiation of difference. Thematically, the book is both wide-ranging and inclusive, for it considers race and ethnicity in tandem; too often these subject areas are segmented into...
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Pub. Date:
1996
Language:
English
Description:
A Mexican millionaire's attempt to create a super baseball team by hiring the best players from the United States and from Latin America. The result is a volatile cocktail, leading to a series of comic situations, on and off the field. By the author of Prophet of the Sandlots.
Pub. Date:
[2005]
Language:
English
Description:
"For nearly a decade NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture has been a leading scholarly journal of baseball history. Here, gathered for the first time, are the best essays from NINE that center on the complex and multifaceted topic of African Americans in baseball."--Page 4 of cover.
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Pub. Date:
[2023]
Language:
English
Description:
"When Women Stood is an unapologetically new sport and social history that unveils the often-overlooked chronicle of women and their fight for equality. From early Amazons and suffragists to modern-day athletes and social influencers, this is an eye-opening history of women told through the always-influential world of sports"--
When Women Stood is an eye-opening chronicle of the amazing women who refused to accept the status quo and fought for something...
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Pub. Date:
2023
Edition:
First edition
Language:
English
Description:
"Before there was Colin Kaepernick, there was Fritz Pollard. The first Black quarterback to play in the NFL, Pollard was a dynamo, leading his team to a national championship, drawing record crowds, and earning the highest salary in the league. He was also subject to a constant stream of racist abuse. Spectators jeered and threw rocks, and opposing players singled him out, using the cover of the game to pummel the only Black man on the field. It would...
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