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Ethnicity and sport in North American history and culture
Title:
Ethnicity and sport in North American history and culture
Author:
Eisen, George, 1943-
ISBN:
9780313064760
Publication Information:
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1994.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xvii, 249 p.)
Series:
Contributions to the study of popular culture, no. 40

Contributions to the study of popular culture ; no. 40.
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.
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