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Say Her Name - Centering Black Feminism And Black Women In Sport

by Letisha Engracia Cardoso Brown

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 Say Her Name offers an in-depth look into the lived experiences of Blackgirlwomen as athletes, activists, and everyday people through a Black feminist lens. With so much research on race centered on Black men and gender research focusing on white women, Say Her Name offers a necessary conversation that places Blackgirlwomen at the center of discussion.
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Black Sporting Resistance - Diaspora, Transnationalism, And Internationalism

by Joseph N. Cooper

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 In this text, Joseph N. Cooper introduces the Black Sporting Resistance Framework (BSRF) as an analytic lens to examine how resistance actions in and through sport have contributed to the advancement of local and global racial justice efforts.
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Nation Of Family And Friends? - Sport And The Leisure Cultures Of British Asian Girls And Women

by Aarti Ratna

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 In <i>A Nation of Family and Friends</i>, sociologist Aarti Ratna examines the complex and dynamic relationships between South Asian women and sporting and leisure cultures. Mining autobiographical insights (as a South Asian scholar living in the UK) she links the chapters of this innovative book using the sociological concepts of family and friends, particularly as they relate to an analysis of wider debates about the complexities of race, gender, and the nation. Ratna underscores the importance of studying informal spaces of sport and leisure as friendly, familial, sociable, and political spaces. She simultaneously highlights the role of earlier sociological research in disseminating myths about South Asian women as too physically weak to play competitive sports; culturally passive victims of South Asian cultures and religions; and as sexually exotic women requiring saving through colonial and imperial projects led by white men and women.<br> <br> Ratna also examines two key cultural objects - the popular films "Bend it Like Beckham" and "Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal" - to examine in detail the gendered representation of South Asian soccer players’ engagement in amateur and elite levels of the sport. She critiques studies of women’s football fandom and sport that fail to acknowledge social differences relating to race, class, age, disability, and sexuality. By linking the social forces (across time and space) that differentially affect their sporting choices and leisure lifestyles, Ratna portrays the women of the South Asian diaspora as active agents in the shaping of their life courses and as skilled navigators of the complexities affecting their own identities. Ultimately Ratna examines the intersections of class, caste, age, generation, gender, and sexuality, to provide a rich and critical exploration of British Asian women''s sport and leisure choices, pleasures, and lived realities.<br>
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Soccer In Mind - A Thinking Fan''S Guide To The Global Game

by Andrew M. Guest

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 Provides a thinking fan's guide to the world's most popular game, proposing a way of engaging soccer that sparks intellectual curiosity and employs critical consciousness. Drawing on concepts from cognitive bias to globalization, the book illuminates meanings of the game for players and fans while investigating impacts on our lives and communities.
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Changing On The Fly - Hockey Through The Voices Of South Asian Canadians

by Courtney Szto

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 Hockey and multiculturalism are often noted as defining features of Canadian culture; yet, rarely are we forced to question the relationship and tensions between these two social constructs. This book examines the growing significance of hockey in Canada's South Asian communities.
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Lakota Hoops - Life And Basketball On Pine Ridge Indian Reservation

by Alan Klein

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 For over 150 years the Lakota have tenaciously defended their culture and land against white miners, settlers, missionaries, and the U.S. Army, and paid the price. Their economy is in shambles and they face serious social issues, but their culture and outlook remain vibrant. Basketball has a role to play in the way that people on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation configure their hopes for a better future, and for pride in their community.<br> <br> In <i>Lakota Hoops,</i> anthropologist Alan Klein trains his experienced eye on the ways that Lakota traditions find a seamless expression in the sport. In a variety of way such as weaving time-honored religious practices into the game or extending the warrior spirit of Crazy Horse to the players on the court, basketball has become a preferred way of finding continuity with the past. But the game is also well suited to the present and has become the largest regular gathering for all Lakota, promoting national pride as well as a venue for the community to creatively and aggressively confront white bigotry when needed.<br> <br> Richly researched and filled with interviews with Pine Ridge residents, including both male and female players, <i>Lakota Hoops</i> offers a compelling look at the highs and lows of a community that has made basketball its own.
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Sport, Physical Culture, And The Moving Body - Materialisms, Technologies, Ecologies

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 Adding to the burgeoning fields of sport studies and body studies, these essays draw on the traditions of feminist theory, posthumanism, actor network theory, and new materialism to reposition the physical, moving body as crucial to the cultural, political, environmental, and economic systems that it constitutes and within which is constituted.
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Parkour And The City - Risk, Masculinity, And Meaning In A Postmodern Sport

by Jeffrey L. Kidder

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 In the increasingly popular sport of parkour, athletes run, jump, climb, flip, and vault through city streetscapes, resembling urban gymnasts to passersby and awestruck spectators. Jeffrey L. Kidder examines the ways in which this sport involves a creative appropriation of urban spaces as well as a method of everyday risk-taking by a youth culture that valorizes individuals who successfully manage danger.
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Indian Spectacle - College Mascots And The Anxiety Of Modern America

by Jennifer Guiliano

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 <div>Amid controversies surrounding the team mascot and brand of the Washington Redskins in the National Football League and the use of mascots by K-12 schools, Americans demonstrate an expanding sensitivity to the pejorative use of references to Native Americans by sports organizations at all levels. In <i>Indian Spectacle</i>, Jennifer Guiliano exposes the anxiety of American middle-class masculinity in relation to the growing commercialization of collegiate sports and the indiscriminate use of Indian identity as mascots.</div> <div> </div> <div><i>Indian Spectacle</i> explores the ways in which white, middle-class Americans have consumed narratives of masculinity, race, and collegiate athletics through the lens of Indian-themed athletic identities, mascots, and music. Drawing on a cross-section of American institutions of higher education, Guiliano investigates the role of sports mascots in the big business of twentieth-century American college football in order to connect mascotry to expressions of community identity, individual belonging, stereotyped imagery, and cultural hegemony. </div> <div> </div> <div>Against a backdrop of the current level of the commercialization of collegiate sports—where the collective revenue of the fifteen highest grossing teams in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has well surpassed one billion dollars—Guiliano recounts the history of the creation and spread of mascots and university identities as something bound up in the spectacle of halftime performance, the growth of collegiate competition, the influence of mass media, and how athletes, coaches, band members, spectators, university alumni, faculty, and administrators, artists, writers, and members of local communities all have contributed to the dissemination of ideas of Indianness that is rarely rooted in native people’s actual lives. </div> <div> </div>
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Kicking Center - Gender And The Selling Of Women''S Professional Soccer

by Rachel Allison

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 <div><b>Winner of the 2018 Early Career Gender Scholar Award from the Sociologists for Women in Society-South</b><br> <br> Girls and young women participate in soccer at record levels and the Women’s National Team regularly draws media, corporate, and popular attention. Yet despite increased representation and visibility, gender disparities in opportunity, compensation, training resources, and media airtime persist in soccer, and two professional leagues for women have failed since 2000. <br> <br> In <i>Kicking Center</i>, Rachel Allison investigates a women’s soccer league seeking to break into the male-dominated center of U.S. professional sport. Through an examination of the challenges and opportunities identified by those working for and with this league, she demonstrates how gender inequality is both constructed and contested in professional sport. Allison details the complex constructions of race, class, gender, and sexuality in the selling and marketing of women’s soccer in a half-changed sports landscape characterized by both progress and backlash, and where professional sports are still understood to be men’s territory. </div>
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Testing For Athlete Citizenship - Regulating Doping And Sex In Sport

by Kathryn E. Henne

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 <div> <div>Incidents of doping in sports are common in news headlines, despite regulatory efforts. How did doping become a crisis? What does a doping violation actually entail? Who gets punished for breaking the rules of fair play? In <i>Testing for Athlete Citizenship</i>, Kathryn E. Henne, a former competitive athlete and an expert in the law and science of anti-doping regulations, examines the development of rules aimed at controlling performance enhancement in international sports. </div> <div> </div> <div>As international and celebrated figures, athletes are powerful symbols, yet few spectators realize that a global regulatory network is in place in an attempt to ensure ideals of fair play. The athletes caught and punished for doping are not always the ones using performance-enhancing drugs to cheat. In the case of female athletes, violations of fair play can stem from their inherent biological traits. Combining historical and ethnographic approaches, <i>Testing for Athlete Citizenship</i> offers a compelling account of the origins and expansion of anti-doping regulation and gender-verification rules. <br> </div> <div>Drawing on research conducted in Australasia, Europe, and North America, Henne provides a detailed account of how race, gender, class, and postcolonial formations of power shape these ideas and regulatory practices. <i>Testing for Athlete Citizenship</i> makes a convincing case to rethink the power of regulation in sports and how it separates athletes as a distinct class of citizens subject to a unique set of rules because of their physical attributes and abilities. <br> </div> <div> </div> </div>
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No Slam Dunk - Gender, Sport And The Unevenness Of Social Change

by Cheryl Cooky e Michael A. Messner

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 No Slam Dunk provides important theoretical and empirical insights into the contemporary world of sports to help explain the unevenness of social change and how, despite significant progress, gender equality in sports has been "No Slam Dunk."
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When Women Rule The Court - Gender, Race, And Japanese American Basketball

by Nicole Willms

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 <div><b>Winner of the 2018 North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Book Award</b><br> <br> For nearly one hundred years, basketball has been an important part of Japanese American life. Women’s basketball holds a special place in the contemporary scene of highly organized and expansive Japanese American leagues in California, in part because these leagues have produced numerous talented female players. Using data from interviews and observations, Nicole Willms explores the interplay of social forces and community dynamics that have shaped this unique context of female athletic empowerment. As Japanese American women have excelled in mainstream basketball, they have emerged as local stars who have passed on the torch by becoming role models and building networks for others. </div>
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Child'S Play - Sport In Kids'' Worlds

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 Is sport good for kids? When answering this question, both critics and advocates of youth sports tend to fixate on matters of health. Child's Play presents a more nuanced examination of the issue, considering not only the physical impacts of youth athletics, but its psychological and social ramifications as well.
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Why Would Anyone Do That? - Lifestyle Sport In The Twenty-First Century

by Stephen C. Poulson

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 Ironman Triathlons and â€œextremeâ€ mountain biking are prime examples of the new â€œlifestyle sportsâ€ that have grown in recent years from oddball pursuits into multi-million-dollar industries. In Why Would Anyone Do That? Stephen C. Poulson offers an exploration of these new and physically demanding sports, shedding light on why some people find them so compelling.
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Activism And The Olympics - Dissent At The Games In Vancouver And London

by Jules Boykoff

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 <div>The Olympics have developed into the world''s premier sporting event. They are simultaneously a competitive exhibition and a grand display of cooperation that bring together global cultures on ski slopes, shooting ranges, swimming pools, and track ovals. Given their scale in the modern era, the Games are a useful window for better comprehending larger cultural, social, and historical processes, argues Jules Boykoff, an academic social scientist who played for the US Olympic soccer team.<br> <br> In <i>Activism and the Olympics</i>, Boykoff provides a critical overview of the Olympic industry and its political opponents in the modern era. After presenting a brief history of Olympic activism, he turns his attention to on-the-ground activism through the lens of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics and the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Here we see how anti-Olympic activists deploy a range of approaches to challenge the Olympic machine, from direct action and the seizure of public space to humor-based and online tactics. Drawing on primary evidence from myriad personal interviews with activists, journalists, civil libertarians, and Olympics organizers, Boykoff angles in on the Games from numerous vantages and viewpoints.<br> <br> Although modern Olympic authorities have strived—even through the Cold War era—to appear apolitical, Boykoff notes, the Games have always been the site of hotly contested political actions and competing interests. During the last thirty years, as the Olympics became an economic juggernaut, they also generated numerous reactions from groups that have sought to challenge the event’s triumphalism and pageantry. The 21st century has seen an increased level of activism across the world, from the Occupy Movement in the United States to the Arab Spring in the Middle East. What does this spike in dissent mean for Olympic activists as they prepare for future Games?</div>
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Discipline And Indulgence - College Football, Media, And The American Way Of Life During The Cold War

by Jeffrey Montez De Oca

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 Demonstrates how popular culture, especially college football, addressed capitalism's contradictions by integrating men into the economy of the Cold War as workers, warriors, and consumers. In the dawning television age, college football provided a ritual and spectacle of the American way of life that anyone could participate in from the comfort of his own home.
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Testing For Athlete Citizenship - Regulating Doping And Sex In Sport

by Kathryn E. Henne

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 Incidents of doping in sports are common in news headlines, despite regulatory efforts. How did doping become a crisis? Who gets punished for breaking the rules of fair play? Kathryn E. Henne, a former competitive athlete and an expert in the law and science of anti-doping regulations, examines the development of rules aimed at controlling performance enhancement in international sports.
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A Nation Of Family And Friends? - Sport And The Leisure Cultures Of British Asian Girls And Women

by Aarti Ratna

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When Women Rule The Court - Gender, Race, And Japanese American Basketball

by Nicole Willms

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The High School - Sports, Spirit, And Citizens, 1903-2024

by Michael A. Messner

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 Taking over a centuryâ€™s worth of yearbooks from his alma mater, Salinas High School, as a historical archive, acclaimed sociologist Michael A. Messner discovers a not-so-distant time when all the cheerleaders were boys and nearly equal attention was paid to boysâ€™ and girlsâ€™ sports. In the process, he explores the changing meanings of high school athletics.
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Say Her Name - Centering Black Feminism And Black Women In Sport

by Letisha Engracia Cardoso Brown

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Black Sporting Resistance - Diaspora, Transnationalism, And Internationalism

by Joseph N. Cooper

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 In this text, the Black Sporting Resistance Framework (BSRF) is introduced to examine how resistance actions in and through sport have contributed to the advancement of local and global racial justice efforts. Key concepts such as African (Black) diaspora, transnationalism, internationalism, sporting resistance typology, and sport activism typology are presented.
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A Nation Of Family And Friends? - Sport And The Leisure Cultures Of British Asian Girls And Women

by Aarti Ratna

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