Fields of Play: Sport, Race, and Memory in the Steel City Hayashi Robert
Fields of Play: Sport, Race, and Memory in the Steel City Hayashi Robert Americans love sports, from neighborhood pickup basketball to the National Football League, and everything in between. In this…
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Fields of Play: Sport, Race, and Memory in the Steel City Hayashi Robert
Americans love sports, from neighborhood pickup basketball to the National Football League, and everything in between. In this original and lyrical history, Robert T. While no city better demonstrates the connection between athletic games and community than Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the common association of the city's professional sports teams with its blue-collar industrial past illustrates a white nostalgic perspective that excludes the voices of many who labored in the mines and mills and played on local fields.
These athletes created separate spaces of play while demanding equal access to the region's opportunities on and off the field. Hayashi addresses this gap by uncovering and sharing overlooked tales of the region's less famous athletes: Chinese baseball players, Black women hunters, Jewish summer campers, and coal miner soccer stars. Weaving together personal narrative with
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