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Ethnicity and sport in North American history and culture

Title: Ethnicity and sport in North American history and culture / edited by George Eisen and David K. Wiggins.
Publication: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1994.

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Description

xvii, 249 p.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Contributions to the study of popular culture, 0198-9871 ; no. 40

Subjects

Bibliography (note)

Contents

Early European attitudes toward Native American sports and pastimes / George Eisen -- Forty-eighters and the rise of the turnverein movement in America / Robert Knight Barney -- A home in the South : the Turners of Galveston, Texas, 1840-65 / K.B. Wamsley -- The shamrock and the eagle : Irish Americans and sport in the nineteenth century / Ralph C. Wilcox -- Jews and baseball : a cultural love story / Eric Solomon -- The Italian-American sporting experience / Carmelo Bazzano -- The recreation and leisure pursuits of Japanese Americans in World War II internment camps / Alison M. Wrynn -- The notion of double-consciousness and the involvement of Black athletes in American sport / David K. Wiggins -- Sport in Philadelphia's African-American community, 1865-1900 / J. Thomas Jable -- Sport and the Americanization of ethnic women in Chicago / Gerald R. Gems.
Radical immigrants and the Workers' Sports Federation of Canada, 1924-37 / Bruce Kidd -- Sport and social mobility among African-American and Hispanic athletes / Merrill J. Melnick and Donald Sabo.

Call Number

JFE 94-15381

ISBN

0313288143 (alk. paper)

LCCN

93050538

OCLC

29636949

Title

Ethnicity and sport in North American history and culture / edited by George Eisen and David K. Wiggins.

Imprint

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1994.

Series

Contributions to the study of popular culture, 0198-9871 ; no. 40

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Eisen, George.

Wiggins, David Kenneth, 1951-

Research Call Number

JFE 94-15381

Sc E 99-1073