Ethnicity and Sport in North American History and Culture by Eisen, George

Ethnicity and Sport in North American History and Culture (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780275954512)

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Ethnicity and Sport in North American History and Culture by Eisen, George

Ethnicity and Sport in North American History and Culture

$45.00
Ethnicity and Sport in North American History and Culture by Eisen, George

Ethnicity and Sport in North American History and Culture

$45.00
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: George Eisen,David Wiggins
ISBN-10: 027595451X
ISBN-13: 9780275954512
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 10/30/1995
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 9.19h x 6.06w x 0.84d
By George Eisen
By George Eisen
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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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