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The Stadium An American History Of Politics Protest And Play Frank Andre Guridy

SKU: BELL-59055998

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Publisher: Basic Books

File Extension: EPUB

File size: 28.49 MB

Pages: 368

Author: Frank Andre Guridy

ISBN: 9781541601451, 1541601459

Language: English

Year: 2024

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The Stadium An American History Of Politics Protest And Play Frank Andre Guridy by Frank Andre Guridy 9781541601451, 1541601459 instant download after payment.

The "deep and impactful" story of the American stadium (Howard Bryant, author of Full Dissidence)—from the first wooden ballparks to today’s glass and steel mega-arenas—revealing how it has made, and remade, American life.
Stadiums are monuments to recreation, sports, and pleasure. Yet from the earliest ballparks to the present, stadiums have also functioned as public squares. Politicians have used them to cultivate loyalty to the status quo, while activists and athletes have used them for anti-fascist rallies, Black Power demonstrations, feminist protests, and much more.
In this book, historian Frank Guridy recounts the contested history of play, protest, and politics in American stadiums. From the beginning, stadiums were political, as elites turned games into celebrations of war, banned women from the press box, and enforced racial segregation. By the 1920s, they also became important sites of protest as...