The Sports Revolution : How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics / Frank Andre Guridy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guridy, Frank Andre, author.

Series:

Texas bookshelf.

The Texas Bookshelf Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Professional sports--Social aspects--Texas--History--20th century.

Professional sports.

Professional sports--Political aspects--Texas--History--20th century.

Professional sports--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Minorities in sports--Texas--History--20th century.

Minorities in sports.

Feminism and sports--Texas--History--20th century.

Feminism and sports.

Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (433 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2023.

Summary:

In the 1960s and 1970s, America experienced a sports revolution. New professional sports franchises and leagues were established, new stadiums were built, football and basketball grew in popularity, and the proliferation of television enabled people across the country to support their favorite teams and athletes from the comfort of their homes. At the same time, the civil rights and feminist movements were reshaping the nation, broadening the boundaries of social and political participation. The Sports Revolution tells how these forces came together in the Lone Star State. Tracing events from the end of Jim Crow to the 1980s, Frank Guridy chronicles the unlikely alliances that integrated professional and collegiate sports and launched women's tennis. He explores the new forms of inclusion and exclusion that emerged during the era, including the role the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders played in defining womanhood in the age of second-wave feminism. Guridy explains how the sexual revolution, desegregation, and changing demographics played out both on and off the field as he recounts how the Washington Senators became the Texas Rangers and how Mexican American fans and their support for the Spurs fostered a revival of professional basketball in San Antonio. Guridy argues that the catalysts for these changes were undone by the same forces of commercialization that set them in motion and reveals that, for better and for worse, Texas was at the center of America's expanding political, economic, and emotional investments in sport.

Contents:

Intro

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.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4773-2184-5

OCLC:

1408682662