The Culture and Ethnicity of Nineteenth Century Baseball EPUB
by Casway Jerrold I. Casway
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Evolving in an urban landscape, professional baseball attracted a dedicated fan base among the inhabitants of major cities, including ethnic and racial minorities, for whom the game was a vehicle for assimilation. But to what extent were these groups welcomed within the world of baseball, and what effect did their integration--or, as in the case of African Americans, their ultimate inability to integrate--have on the culture of a pastime that had recently become a national obsession? How did their mutual striving for acceptance affect relations between these minorities? (In deep and long-lasting ways, as it turns out.)
This book provides a carefully considered portrait of baseball as both a sporting profession--one with quick-changing rules and roles--and as an institution that reinforced popular ideas about cultural identity, masculinity and American exceptionalism.
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:216 pages
- Publisher:McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
- Publication Date:15/05/2017
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- ISBN:9781476625966
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:216 pages
- Publisher:McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
- Publication Date:15/05/2017
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- ISBN:9781476625966