Title: Sports matters : race, recreation, and culture / edited by John Bloom and Michael Nevin Willard.
Authors: Bloom, John, 1962-; Willard, Michael Nevin.
Publisher: New York University Press,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Discrimination in sports United States History; Sports Social aspects United States; Racism in popular culture United States.
Contents: Out of bounds and between the lines: race in twentieth-century American sport -- Sports in the era of segregation -- Duke Kahanamoku's body: biography of Hawai'i / Michael Nevin Willard -- Jump for joy: jump blues, dance, and basketball in 1930s African America / Gena Caponi-Tabery -- Baseball along the Columbia: the Nisei, their community, their sport in Northern Oregon / Samuel O. Regalado -- Mexican American baseball: masculinity, racial struggle, and labor politics in Southern California, 1930-1950 / Jose M. Alamillo -- Sports in the era of the Civil Rights Movement -- Jazzing the basepaths: Jackie Robinson and African American Aesthetics / Montye Fuse and Keith Miller -- The unbearable whiteness of skiing / Annie Gilbert Coleman -- "We want a pennant, not a white team": how Boston's ethnic and racial history shaped the Red Sox / Sharon O'Brien -- Whose broad stripes and bright stars? Race, nation, and power at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics / Amy Bass -- Documenting myth: racial representation in Leon Gast's When we were kings / Julio Rodriguez -- Sports and race in the post-Cold War era -- The silence of the Rams: how St. Louis School children subsidize the Super Bowl Champs / George Lipsitz -- Warriors and thieves: appropriations of the warrior motif in representations of Native American athletes / John Bloom and Randy Hanson -- Running with her head down: Oprah Winfrey and middle-class black women's discourses of fitness / Connie M. Razza -- Saving face, place, and race: Oscar De La Hoya and the "All-American" dreams of U.S. boxing / Greg Rodriguez -- Race in soccer as a global sport / Michiko Hase -- Tiger Woods at the center of history: looking back at the twentieth century through the lenses of race, sports, and mass consumption / Henry Yu.