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Sports and politics : commodification, capitalist exploitation, and political agency / edited by Frank Jacob.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sports--Political aspects.
- Sports.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2020]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- 1 Sports, Politics, and Capitalism or: The Immoral Corruption of a Human Pleasure
- Section I: Sports, Politics, and Corruption
- 2 Politics, Corruption, and Urban Sport in Chicago Racing: The Paul Powell Shoebox Scandal and the Bribery of Otto Kerner
- 3 The Great Australian 'Sting': How and Why Melbourne Became the World's Sporting Capital
- Section II: Sports, Politics, and Racism
- 4 In the Land of Dreamy Dreams: Tennis and the Nexus of Class and Race in New Orleans, 1876-1976
- 5 "Change Starts with Us": The Issue of Media Representation of Athletes' Activism for Black Lives
- 6 The Revival of Athlete Activism(s): Divergent Black Politics in the 2016 Presidential Election Engagements of LeBron James and Colin Kaepernick
- Section III: Sports, Politics, Sexual Abuse and Homophobia
- 7 #MeToo, Larry Nassar, and Sexual Abuse in Youth Sports
- 8 Hegemonic Masculinities and the Fear of Being Gay in the NHL
- Contributors
- Index
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 09, 2020).
- ISBN:
- 9783110679397
- 3110679396
- 9783110679489
- 3110679485
- Publisher Number:
- 40030166941
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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