Cooperstown To Dyersville: A Geography Of Baseball Nostalgia

Politics & Social Sciences

Springwood, Charles Fruehling

Anthropology

Routledge

Beyond the Cheers: Race As Spectacle in College Sport (Suny Series on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations) (Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations)

From mascots to half-time shows to media coverage, Beyond the Cheers critically and honestly assesses the role of race in big time college sports. Focusing on half-time performances, commercialized stagings, media coverage, public panics, and political protests, Beyond the Cheers offers an ethnography, history, and social critique of racial spectacles in college sport. King and Springwood argue that collegiate revenue producing sports are created as a spectacle, driven by a range of contradictory meanings and exploitative practices. While Native Americans are viewed largely as empty or distorted images and African Americans are seen as both shining stars and ‘troubled delinquents,’ White Americans remain constant as spectators, coaches, administrators, journalists, and athletes, producing and consuming college sport, performing and policing, but seemingly unmarked as racial subjects. In consuming these spectacles, American sports fans learn to embrace inflated, contradictory, and distorted renderings of racial difference and the history of race relations in America.

Beyond the Cheers: Race as Spectacle in College Sport (Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations)

King, C. Richard

Sports & Outdoors

State University of New York Press

Cooperstown To Dyersville: A Geography Of Baseball Nostalgia (Institutional Structures of Feeling)

Written from the perspective of an author who is both baseball fan and cultural anthropologist, this book sets out to unravel the mysteries of Cooperstown, New York (home of the Baseball Hall of Fame) and Dyersville, Iowa (site of the baseball field featured in the Hollywood film, "Field of Dreams"). It offers insights into the postmodern culture of the United States in which tourist sites and "American heritages" are culturally produced and consumed, by studying the people who visit them.

Westview Press

Written from the perspective of an author who is both baseball fan and cultural anthropologist, this book sets out to unravel the mysteries of Cooperstown, New York (home of the Baseball Hall of Fame) and Dyersville, Iowa (site of the baseball field featured in the Hollywood film, "Field of Dreams"). It offers insights into the postmodern culture of the United States in which tourist sites and "American heritages" are culturally produced and consumed, by studying the people who visit them.

Social Sciences

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