The Texas Bookshelf-The Sports Revolution How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics

Name: The Texas Bookshelf-The Sports Revolution
Author: Frank Andre Guridy

Auteur: Frank Andre Guridy

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Frank Andre Guridy

Engels
Paperback
9781477328576
03 oktober 2023
432 pagina's

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The story of Texas’s impact on American sports culture during the civil rights and second-wave feminist movements, this book offers a new understanding of sports and society in the state and the nation as a whole.

In the 1960s and 1970s, America experienced a sports revolution. New professional sports franchises and leagues were established, new stadiums were built, football and basketball grew in popularity, and the proliferation of television enabled people across the country to support their favorite teams and athletes from the comfort of their homes. At the same time, the civil rights and feminist movements were reshaping the nation, broadening the boundaries of social and political participation. The Sports Revolution tells how these forces came together in the Lone Star State.

Tracing events from the end of Jim Crow to the 1980s, Frank Guridy chronicles the unlikely alliances that integrated professional and collegiate sports and launched women’s tennis. He explores the new forms of inclusion and exclusion that emerged during the era, including the role the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders played in defining womanhood in the age of second-wave feminism. Guridy explains how the sexual revolution, desegregation, and changing demographics played out both on and off the field as he recounts how the Washington Senators became the Texas Rangers and how Mexican American fans and their support for the Spurs fostered a revival of professional basketball in San Antonio. Guridy argues that the catalysts for these changes were undone by the same forces of commercialization that set them in motion and reveals that, for better and for worse, Texas was at the center of America’s expanding political, economic, and emotional investments in sport.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 03 oktober 2023
Aantal pagina's: 432
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Frank Andre Guridy
Hoofduitgeverij: University Of Texas Press

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Product breedte: 152 mm
Product hoogte: 38 mm
Product lengte: 229 mm
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Verpakking breedte: 152 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 38 mm
Verpakking lengte: 229 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 653 g

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Categorieën: Mens & Maatschappij

Sport & Outdoor

Geschiedenis

Sociologie

Sportgeschiedenis

Sport & Vrije tijd

Periodes

Hedendaagse geschiedenis ( v.a. 1945)

Regio's & Landen

Noord-, Midden-, & Zuid-Amerika

Boeken
Taal: Engels
Boek, ebook of luisterboek?: Boek
Beschikbaarheid: Leverbaar
Periode: ca. 1950-1999

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