Ethnicity and sport in North American history and culture / edited by George Eisen and David K. Wiggins.
| Uniform Title: | Contributions to the study of popular culture ;
no. 40. |
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| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Westport, Conn. :
Greenwood Press,
1994.
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| Series: | Contributions to the study of popular culture ;
no. 40. |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 249 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
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.