Mexican American Fastpitch: Identity at Play in Vernacular Sport 2020052605, 2020052606, 9781503609969, 9781503628595, 1503609960

Mexican American Fastpitch: Identity at Play in Vernacular Sport 9781503628601

In Mexican American communities in the central United States, the modern tradition of playing fastpitch softball has bee

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Nation at Play: A History of Sport in India 9780231539937

Ronojoy Sen pairs a novel history of India's engagement with sport and a probing analysis of its cultural and polit

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Child's Play: Sport in Kids' Worlds 9780813571478

Is sport good for kids? When answering this question, both critics and advocates of youth sports tend to fixate on matte

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Sport and the Spirit of Play in American Fiction: Hawthorne to Faulkner 9780231516617

In this comprehensive and insightful study, Christian K. Messenger contends that American writers have always created ch

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Sport in Australian National Identity 9781317987659

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Foul Play: The Dark Arts of Cheating in Sport 9781408166048

Foul Play dissects the age-old subject of cheating in all its absurdity. From plain old doping to claiming a marathon vi

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Sport, Globalisation and Identity 9781000196337

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Becoming Mexican American: ethnicity, culture and identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 9780195069907, 9780199762231, 9780195096484

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An American Icon in Puerto Rico: Barbie, Girlhood, and Colonialism at Play 9781800733879

Since her creation in 1959, Barbie has become an icon of femininity to girls all over the world. In this study, author E

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Italian Folk: Vernacular Culture in Italian-American Lives 9780823291908

Sunday dinners, basement kitchens, and backyard gardens are everyday cultural entities long associated with Italian Amer

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