Hoops: a cultural history of basketball in America
Hoops: a cultural history of basketball in America
Hoops: a cultural history of basketball in America
Prologue -- Muscular Christianity -- Professionalizing the amateur game -- The Negro leagues -- Early collegiate basketball -- The growth of the women's game -- Mid-century scandal -- The birth of the NBA -- Integration -- Race and civil rights -- The ABA and the merger -- Magic…
Hoops: a cultural history of basketball in America
"From its nineteenth-century roots to its position today as a global symbol of American culture, basketball has been a force in American society. This book presents the first cultural history of the sport from the street to the highest levels of professional men's and women's co…
Hoops: a cultural history of basketball in America
"From its nineteenth-century roots to its position today as a global symbol of American culture, basketball has been a force in American society. This book presents the first cultural history of the sport from the street to the highest levels of professional men's and women's co…
HOOPS: a cultural history of basketball in america
Hoops: a cultural history of basketball in America
"From its nineteenth-century roots to its position today as a global symbol of American culture, basketball has been a force in American society. This book presents the first cultural history of the sport from the street to the highest levels of professional men's and women's co…
Hoops: a cultural history of basketball in America
"From its nineteenth-century roots to its position today as a global symbol of American culture, basketball has been a force in American society. This book presents the first cultural history of the sport from the street to the highest levels of professional men's and women's co…
Atlanta, the Scott family, and the creation of a media empire -- Race, representation, and the Puryear ax murders -- The unsolved murder of William Alexander Scott -- The SNS, gender, and the fight for teacher salary equalization -- Expansion beyond the South in the wake of Worl…
"The Scott Newspaper Syndicate, run by the owners of the Atlanta Daily World, included more than 240 black newspapers between 1931 and 1955. It became after World War I the modern version of the nineteenth century kinship network, the grapevine, and it looked much the same and s…
"The Scott Newspaper Syndicate, run by the owners of the Atlanta Daily World, included more than 240 black newspapers between 1931 and 1955. It became after World War I the modern version of the nineteenth century kinship network, the grapevine, and it looked much the same and s…