The Sports Revolution : : How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics / / Frank Andre Guridy.
The story of Texas’s impact on American sports culture during the civil rights and second-wave feminist movements, this book offers a new understanding of sports and society in the state and the nation as a whole. In the 1960s and 1970s, America experienced a sports revolution. New professional spor...
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Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | The Texas Bookshelf
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (432 p.) :; 43 b&w photos, 1 b&w illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Praise for The Sports Revolution
- THE TEXAS BOOKSHELF
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Sports in the Shadow of Segregation
- Chapter 2. Spaceships Land in the Texas Prairie
- Chapter 3. The Outlaws
- Chapter 4. We’ve Come a Long Way to Houston
- Chapter 5. Labor and Lawlessness in Rangerland
- Chapter 6. Sexual Revolution on the Sidelines
- Chapter 7. The Greek, the Iceman, and the Bums
- Chapter 8. Slammin’ and Jammin’ in Houston
- Conclusion. The Revolution Undone
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index