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  • Mexican American Fastpitch

    Identity at Play in Vernacular Sport

    by Ben Chappell ...
    In Mexican American communities in the central United States, the modern tradition of playing fastpitch softball has been passed from generation to generation. This ethnic sporting practice is kept alive through annual tournaments, the longest-running of which were founded in the 1940s, when softball was a ubiquitous form of recreation, and the so-called "Mexican American generation" born to ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • The Everyday Life of Urban Inequality

    Ethnographic Case Studies of Global Cities

    by Angela Storey, Megan Sheehan, Jessica Bodoh-Creed, Raffael Beier, Hugo Ceron-Anaya, Ben Chappell, Chiara Minestrelli, Lucero Radonic0, Joel Christian Reed1, Cristiana Strava2, Seng-Guan Yeoh3 ...
    Series series Culture, Humanity, and Urban Life
    The Everyday Life of Urban Inequality explores how steadily increasing inequality and the spectacular pace of urbanization frame daily life for city residents around the world. Ethnographic case studies from five continents highlight the impact of place, the tools of memory, and the power of collective action as communities interact with centralized processes of policy and capital. By focusing on ... Read more

    $34.09 USD

  • Lowrider Space

    Aesthetics and Politics of Mexican American Custom Cars

    by Ben Chappell ...
    Aren’t lowriders always gangbangers? And, don’t they always hold high status in their neighborhoods? Contrary to both stereotypes, the people who build and drive lowrider cars perform diverse roles while mobilizing a distinctive aesthetic that is sometimes an act of resistance and sometimes of belonging. A fresh application of critical ethnographic methods, Lowrider Space looks beyond media ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • A Home on the Field

    How One Championship Team Inspires Hope for the Revival of Small Town America

    by Paul Cuadros ...
    A Home on the Field is about faith, loyalty, and trust. It is a parable in the tradition of Stand and Deliver and Hoosiers—a story of one team and their accidental coach who became certain heroes to the whole community.For the past ten years, Siler City, North Carolina, has been at the front lines of immigration in the interior portion of the United States. Like a number of small Southern towns, ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fair and Foul

    Beyond the Myths and Paradoxes of Sport

    by D. Stanley Eitzen ...
    Fair and Foul explores our love of sport, just as it reveals sport’s darker side—the influence of big business, corruption, price gouging, political maneuvering, gender bias, media grandstanding, and more. The sixth edition features a new chapter on mass media and sport, a revised introduction that lays out the two themes of the book with fresh examples, and a significantly revised chapter on ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Raceball

    How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game

    by Rob Ruck ...
    From an award-winning writer, the first linked history of African Americans and Latinos in Major League BaseballAfter peaking at 27 percent of all major leaguers in 1975, African Americans now make up less than one-tenth--a decline unimaginable in other men's pro sports. The number of Latin Americans, by contrast, has exploded to over one-quarter of all major leaguers and roughly half of those ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Language of the Game

    How to Understand Soccer

    by Laurent Dubois ...
    Essential reading for soccer fans as the 2022 World Cup approaches, this lively and lyrical book is "an ideal guide to the world's most popular sport" (Simon Kuper, coauthor of Soccernomics).Soccer is not only the world's most popular game; it's also one of the most widely shared forms of global culture. The Language of the Game is a passionate and engaging introduction to soccer's history, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Everyday Language of White Racism

    by Jane H. Hill ...
    Series Book 7 - Wiley Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture
    In The Everyday Language of White Racism, Jane H. Hill provides an incisive analysis of everyday language to reveal the underlying racist stereotypes that continue to circulate in American culture.provides a detailed background on the theory of race and racismreveals how racializing discourse—talk and text that produces and reproduces ideas about races and assigns people to them—facilitates a ... Read more

    $39.00 USD

  • Welcome to the Terrordome

    The Pain, Politics and Promise of Sports

    by Dave Zirin ...
    “Dave Zirin is the best young sportswriter in America.”—Robert LipsyteThis much-anticipated sequel to What’s My Name, Fool? by acclaimed commentator Dave Zirin breaks new ground in sports writing, looking at the controversies and trends now shaping sports in the United States—and abroad. Features chapters such as “Barry Bonds is Gonna Git Your Mama: The Last Word on Steroids,” “Pro Basketball and ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Blowout!

    Sal Castro and the Chicano Struggle for Educational Justice

    by Sal Castro, Mario T. García ...
    In March 1968, thousands of Chicano students walked out of their East Los Angeles high schools and middle schools to protest decades of inferior and discriminatory education in the so-called “Mexican Schools.” During these historic walkouts, or “blowouts,” the students were led by Sal Castro, a courageous and charismatic Mexican American teacher who encouraged the students to make their grievances ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Roberto Clemente: Dedication

    by Fritz Knapp ...
    Series series Sports Virtues
    "As part of the acclaimed Sports Virtues series, Roberto Clemente: Dedication discusses the struggles and triumphs of Roberto Clemente's life. As with each story in the Sports Virtues series, this book assigns a virtue to a celebrated athlete or coach, and uses that person's story to help the reader achieve that virtue for him or herself.What emerges after reading these stories is not only a ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Gaming the World

    How Sports Are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture

    by Andrei S. Markovits, Lars Rensmann ...
    The globalizing influence of professional sportsProfessional sports today have truly become a global force, a common language that anyone, regardless of their nationality, can understand. Yet sports also remain distinctly local, with regional teams and the fiercely loyal local fans that follow them. This book examines the twenty-first-century phenomenon of global sports, in which professional ... Read more

    $22.99 USD