Ethnicity and Sport in North American History and Culture

GEORGE EISEN is Professor and Coordinator of Sociocultural Study and Sport and Play at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He is the author of Children and Play in the the Holocaust (1988), a Choice Outstanding Academic Book of the Year, and Understanding Leisure (1990), as well as numerous articles in The Journal of Sport History, Play & Culture, The International Journal of the Sociology of Sport, Journal of Sport & Social Issues, and many others.DAVID K. WIGGINS is Professor of Physical Education at George Mason University. He is the author of numerous articles dealing primarily with African-American involvement in sport, in such journals as The Journal of Sport History, Canadian Journal of History of Sport, The International Journal of the History of Sport, and Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport.

• PrefaceIntroduction by George EisenEarly European Attitudes toward Native American Sports and Pastimes by George EisenFor Identity, for Cause, for Health, and Fitness: Forty-Eighters and the Rise of the Turnverein Movement in America by Robert Knight BarneyA Home In the South: The Turners of Galveston, Texas, 1840-1865 by K.B. WamsleyThe Shamrock and the Eagle: Irish-Americans and Sport in the Nineteenth Century by Ralph C. WilcoxJews and Baseball: A Cultural Love Story by Eric SolomonThe Italian-American Sporting Experience by Carmelo Bazzano"Diversionary" Tactics: The Recreation and Leisure Pursuits of Japanese Americans in World War II Internment Camps by Alison M. WrynnThe Quest for Identity: The Notion of Double-Consciousness and the Involvement of Black Athletes in American Sport by David K. WigginsSport in Philadelphia's African-American Community, 1865-1900 by J. Thomas JableSport and the Americanization of Ethnic Women in Chicago by Gerald R. Gems"We Raced for Socks and Sweaters--Not that Useless Bourgeois Stuff, Cups and Medals": Radical Immigrants and the Workers' Sport Federation of Canada, 1924-37 by Bruce KiddSport and Social Mobility among African-American and Hispanic Athletes by Merrill J. Melnick and Donald Sabo