The sporting world of the modern South
By: edited by Patrick B. Miller
Contributors: Miller, Patrick B
Series: Sport and society
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
Subjects: Sports -- Southern States -- History; Sports -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: The manly, the moral, and the proficient: college sport in the new South / Patrick B. Miller; title: Baseball, the lost cause, and the new South in Richmond, Virginia / Robert Gudmestad; title: "Dear sisters" and "hated rivals": athletics and gender at two new South women's colleges, 1893-1920 / Pamela Dean; title: Turning the tide: college football and Southern progressivism / Andrew Doyle; title: To "bring the race along rapidly": sport, student culture, and educational mission at historically black colleges during the interwar years / Patrick B. Miller; title: "We were ladies, we just played like boys": African American women and competitive basketball at Bennett College, 1928-42 / Rita Liberti; title: Integrating New Year's day: the racial politics of college bowl games in the American South / Charles H. Martin; title: Baseball's reluctant challenge: desegregating major league spring training sites, 1961-64 / Jack E. Davis; title: "Something more than the game will be lost": The 1963 Mississippi state basketball controversy and the repeal of the unwritten law / Russell J. Henderson; title: An atheist in Alabama is someone who doesn't believe in Bear Bryant: a symbol for an embattled South / Andrew Doyle; title: "The Tennessee test of manhood": professional wrestling and Southern cultural stereotypes / Louis M. Kyriakoudes and Peter A. Coclanis; title: The king, the young prince, and the last confederate soldier: NASCAR on the cusp / Karyn Charles Rybacki and Donald Jay Rybacki; title: Manhood, memory, and white men's sports in the American South / Ted Ownby