Sherri Grasmuck

Broschiertes Buch

Protecting Home

Class, Race, and Masculinity in Boys' Baseball

Beschreibung

Through an exploration of a boys' baseball league in a gentrifying neighbourhood of Philadelphia, this book reveals the accommodations and tensions that characterize multicultural encounters in contemporary US public life. Protecting Home offers an account for racial accommodation in a space that was previously known for conflict and exclusion.

Autor

Sherri Grasmuck is a professor of sociology at Temple University. She is the coauthor of Between Two Islands: Dominican International Migration. Janet Goldwater is a photographer and documentary filmmaker. She coproduced the award-winning PBS broadcasts Maggie Growls, Landowska, and Motherless: A Legacy of Loss from Illegal Abortion.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 154mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9780813535555
• ISBN-10: 0813535557
• Artikelnr.: 22485328