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Baseball rebels the players, people, and social movements that shook up the game and changed America /

"Baseball Rebels tells stories of reformers and radicals who were influenced by, and in turn influenced, America's broader political and social protest movements, including battles against racism, corporate control, worker exploitation, sexism and homophobia, and American militarism."...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteurs principaux: Dreier, Peter, 1948- (Auteur), Elias, Robert, 1950- (Auteur)
Autres auteurs: Zirin, Dave (author of foreword.)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2022]
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Foreword / by Dave Zirin
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. Resisting Racism. Battling Jim Crow. Building Black institutions
  • Before Jackie Robinson
  • Crossing the color line
  • Defending civil rights
  • Part 2. Resisting Sexism and Homophobia. Women in baseball
  • Gay men in baseball
  • Part 3. Today's Activists and an Agenda for Change. Modern-day rebels
  • Baseball justice: An unfinished agenda.