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1) A people's history of sports in the United States: 250 years of politics, protest, people, and play
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Series
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
Description
"The story of Texas's impact on American sports culture during the civil rights and second-wave feminist movements, offering a new understanding of sports and society in the state and the nation as a whole"--
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The intersection of sports and politics has been making headlines over the last few years, but the reality is that this clash has been going on for decades. This book examines the history of sports as a means to advance social change and connects that history to today's world"--
Author
Publisher
Temple University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"This book contextualizes the latest rise in athlete activism against racial inequality by surveying the history of protest in American sports. Steele reveals that the platform sports stardom affords has always come with the responsibility to speak out against injustice even if not all athletes have answered that call"--
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A captivating chronicle of the pivotal decade in American sports, when the games invaded prime time, and sports moved from the margins to the mainstream of American culture. Every decade brings change, but as Michael MacCambridge chronicles in THE BIG TIME, no decade in American sports history featured such convulsive cultural shifts as the 1970s. So many things happened during the decade-the move of sports into prime-time television, the beginning...
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