Sports matters
Subtitle: race, recreation, and culture / edited by John Bloom and Michael Nevin Willard
Contributors: Bloom, John, 1962-; Willard, Michael Nevin
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
Subjects: Discrimination in sports -- United States -- History; Sports -- Social aspects -- United States; Racism in popular culture -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Duke Kahanamoku's body / Michael Nevin Willard; title: Jump for joy / Gena Caponi-Tabery; title: Baseball along the Columbia / Sam Regalado; title: Mexican American baseball / Jose M. Alamillo; title: Jazzing the basepaths / Montye Fuse and Keith Miller; title: The unbearable whiteness of skiing / Annie Gilbert Coleman; title: "We want a pennant, not a white team" / Sharon O'Brien; title: Whose broad stripes and bright stars? / Amy Bass; title: Documenting myth / Julio Rodriguez; title: The silence of the lambs / George Lipsitz; title: Warriors and thieves / John Bloom and Randy Hanson; title: Running with her head down / Connie M. Razza; title: Saving face, place, and race / Greg Rodriguez; title: Race in soccer as a global sport / Michiko Hase; title: Tiger Woods at the center of history / Henry Yu