Ethnicity and sport in North American history and culture
By: edited by George Eisen and David K. Wiggins.
Contributors: Eisen, George, 1943-; Wiggins, David Kenneth, 1951-
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: Minorities in sports -- United States -- History; Minorities in sports -- Canada -- History; Popular culture -- United States; Popular culture -- Canada
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Early European attitudes toward Native American sports and pastimes / George Eisen; title: Forty-eighters and the rise of the turnverein movement in America / Robert Knight Barney; title: A home in the South : the Turners of Galveston, Texas, 1840-65 / K.B. Wamsley; title: The shamrock and the eagle : Irish Americans and sport in the nineteenth century / Ralph C. Wilcox; title: Jews and baseball : a cultural love story / Eric Solomon; title: The Italian-American sporting experience / Carmelo Bazzano; title: The recreation and leisure pursuits of Japanese Americans in World War II internment camps / Alison M. Wrynn; title: The; title: notion of double-consciousness and the involvement of Black athletes in American sport / David K. Wiggins; title: Sport in Philadelphia's African-American community, 1865-1900 / J. Thomas Jable; title: Sport and the Americanization of ethnic women in Chicago / Gerald R. Gems.; title: Radical immigrants and the Workers' Sports Federation of Canada, 1924-37 / Bruce Kidd; title: Sport and social mobility among African-American and Hispanic athletes / Merrill J. Melnick and Donald Sabo.