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The sports revolution : how Texas changed the culture of American athletics
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"The story of Texas's impact on American sports culture during the civil rights and second-wave feminist movements, offering a new understanding of sports and society in the state and the nation as...
"The story of Texas's impact on American sports culture during the civil rights and second-wave feminist movements, offering a new understanding of sports and society in the state and the nation as a whole"--
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- Creator
- Frank Andre Guridy
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- First edition
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2021
- ©2021
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- 418 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781477321836, 1477321837, 9781477321850, 9781477321843
- OCLC
- on1145901341
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction -- Sports in the shadow of segregation -- Spaceships land in the Texas prairie -- The outlaws -- We've come a long way to Houston -- Labor and lawlessness in Rangerland -- Sexual revolution on the sidelines -- The Greek, the Iceman, and the Bums -- Slammin' and jammin' in Houston -- Conclusion: the revolution undone
Subjects
- Professional sports -- Social aspects -- Texas -- History -- 20th century.
- Professional sports -- Political aspects -- Texas -- History -- 20th century.
- Professional sports -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Minorities in sports -- Texas -- History -- 20th century.
- Feminism and sports -- Texas -- History -- 20th century.
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.