Sporting Dystopias: The Making and Meaning of Urban Sport Cultures (S U N Y Series on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations)

Sporting Dystopias......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
1. Sport in the City: Cultural, Economic, and Political Portraits by Ralph C.Wilcox and David L. Andrews......Page 8
2. Sport and Community/Communitas by Alan G. Ingham and Mary G. McDonald......Page 24
3. Mediated Sports, Mayors, and the Marketed Metropolis by Gene Burd......Page 42
4. Urban(e) Statuary Times by Synthia Sydnor Slowikowski......Page 72
5. No Christmas Dinner: The Effect of Major Sporting Events on Local Homelessness by Robin M. Mathy......Page 88
6. Rounders or Robin Hoods?: Questioning the Role of the Ticket Scalper As Entertainment Outlaw or Free Market Capitalist by Michael F. Atkinson......Page 102
7. Horse Racing in Chicago, 1883–1894: The Interplay of Class, Politics, and Organized Crime by Steven A. Riess......Page 124
8. Athletics in the Ward and Beyond: Neighborhoods, Jews, and Sport in Toronto, 1900–1939 by Danny Rosenberg......Page 144
9. Urban Sanctuary: Youth Culture in a Recreation Drop-in Center by Brian Wilson and Phil White......Page 160
10. Researching Youth Sports Programs in a Metropolitan Setting: Essentials of, Barriers to, and Policy for Achieving a Comprehensive Program by Michael A. Clark......Page 186
11. Soccer, Race, and Suburban Space by David L. Andrews, Robert Pitter, Detlev Zwick, and Darren Ambrose......Page 204
12. The New Politics of Urban Consumption: Hoop Dreams, Clockers, and “America” by CL Cole and Samantha King......Page 228
13. In Place of “Race,” Space: “Basketball in Canada” and the Absence of Racism by Gamal Abdel-Shehid......Page 254
14. Driving the Lane against the Raptor: The Production and Racialization of (Transgressive) Subjects on the Streets of Toronto by Andrew D. Thornton......Page 272
List of Contributors......Page 288
G......Page 294
R......Page 295
Y......Page 296
Books in SUNY series on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations......Page 298