Full Description
The aim of this volume is to explore what it is about culture and society that creates an environment in which an athlete is able to excel or fail in his/her respective sport as well as which factors, such as racism, discrimination, financial advantage or hardship, propel or hinder an athlete's achievements.
Contents
Preface / Eileen M. Angelini; Idol Thoughts / Alan E. Sexton; 1946 Montreal:Home to Two of the Worlds Greatest Sports Heroes / Eileen M. Angelini; From No Joy in Mudville to Im a Yankee Doodle Dandy: Casey at the Bat and Irish Assimilation / Richard Pioreck; Black Men in White Sports: Film and Racial Politics in 1930s-40s America / Tatiana Prorokova; Bloodsport: Black Athletes, White Spectators, and the United States' Racial Imagination / Jayson Baker; Reproducing Lynching and Spectacle: Colin Kapernick, the Burning and Desecration of Black Athletes Jerseys, and the Creation of a Digital Hate Archive / Travis D. Boyce and Stephanie M. Burchett; The Devil and Len Bias: How Politicians, Players and Pushers Made the 1986 Crack Scare and the Modern War on Drugs / Michael J. Durfee; Women and the Business of Dragon Boat Sport: Overcoming Obstacles and Reaching for Success / Raúl Fernández-Calienes; Ethnicity, Culture, Religion and Sport: Sectarianism as an Obstacle to the Development of Sport in Cape Town, South Africa during the First Half of the Twentieth Century / Farieda Kahn; Caster Semenya: Running Against Gender and Dysconscious Racial Discrimination / Gibson Ncube; Notes on Contributors"
