Ethnicity and Sport in North American History and Culture

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George Eisen, David Kenneth Wiggins
ABC-CLIO, 1995 - History - 249 pages
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The editors use the unique lens of the history of sports to examine ethnic experiences in North America since 1840. Comprised of 12 original essays and an Introduction, it chronicles sport as a social institution through which various ethnic and racial groups attempted to find the way to social and psychological acceptance and cultural integration. Included are chapters on Native Americans, Irish-Americans, German-Americans, Canadians, African-Americans, Italian-Americans, Hispanics, and several more, showing how their sports participation also provided these communities with some measure of social mobility, self-esteem, and a shared pride.

 

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Contents

1 Early European Attitudes toward Native American Sports and Pastimes
1
2 FortyEighters and the Rise of the Turnverein Movement in America
19
The Turners of Galveston Texas 184065
43
Irish Americans and Sport in the Nineteenth Century
55
A Cultural Love Story
75
6 The ItalianAmerican Sporting Experience
103
7 The Recreation and Leisure Pursuits of Japanese Americans in World War II Internment Camps
117
8 The Notion of DoubleConsciousness and the Involvement of Black Athletes in American Sport
133
9 Sport in Philadelphias AfricanAmerican Community 18651900
157
10 Sport and the Americanization of Ethnic Women in Chicago
177
11 Radical Immigrants and the Workers Sports Federation of Canada 192437
201
12 Sport and Social Mobility among AfricanAmerican and Hispanic Athletes
221
Index
243
Contributors
247
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About the author (1995)

GEORGE EISEN is Professor and Coordinator of Sociocultural Study and Sport and Play at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He is the author of Children and Play in the the Holocaust (1988), a Choice Outstanding Academic Book of the Year, and Understanding Leisure (1990), as well as numerous articles in The Journal of Sport History, Play & Culture, The International Journal of the Sociology of Sport, Journal of Sport & Social Issues, and many others.

DAVID K. WIGGINS is Professor of Physical Education at George Mason University. He is the author of numerous articles dealing primarily with African-American involvement in sport, in such journals as The Journal of Sport History, Canadian Journal of History of Sport, The International Journal of the History of Sport, and Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport.

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TitleEthnicity and Sport in North American History and Culture
Issue 40 of Contributions to the study of popular culture, ISSN 0198-9871
EditorsGeorge Eisen, David Kenneth Wiggins
PublisherABC-CLIO, 1995
ISBN027595451X, 9780275954512
Length249 pages
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History / General
Sports & Recreation / General
  
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