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Sporting World of Modern South

By: Patrick B. Miller (Editor)

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Hardcover | 14 March 2002

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Engaging a medley of perspectives and methodologies, The Sporting World of the Modern South examines how sports map the social, political, and cultural landscapes of the modern South.In essays on the "backcountry" fighter stereotypes portrayed in modern professional wrestling and the significance of Crimson Tide coaching legend Paul "Bear" Bryant for white Alabamians, contributors explore the symbols that have shaped southern regional identities since the Civil War. Other essays tackle gender and race relations in intercollegiate athletics, uncover the roles athletic competitions played in desegregating the South, and address the popularity of NASCAR in the southern states.Pairing the action and anecdotes of good sportswriting with rock-solid scholarship, The Sporting World of the Modern South adds historical and anthropological perspectives to legends and lore from the gridiron to the racetrack. This collection, with its innovative attention to the interplay between athletics and regional identity, is an insightful and compelling contribution to southern and sports history.

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''[This volume] is about how sports have reflected and influenced the evolution of social justice in the last 150 years of southern history... Well researched.'' -- Choice ''Illuminates the South's role in shaping the South... Miller's collection of essays ... consider the past role of sport in Southern distinctiveness and push historians to consider more heavily the role that sport continues to play.'' -- J.R. Duke, The Southern Register ''Miller and his colleagues have made a valuable contribution to the study of southern sports. Students of southern history will find much of interest in this useful collection.'' --The North Carolina Historical Review ADVANCE PRAISE ''This fascinating book will become a landmark in the historiography of sport. Because sports are so important in the region's culture and because the essayists take a broad view of their subjects, this collection will also appeal to everyone interested in the South's obsession with honor, its conceptions of manhood and womanhood, its transition into modernity, and especially its race relations.'' -- Gaines Foster, author of Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South, 1865-1913 ''This volume is a challenging interpretation that significantly advances the study of sports in America and provides the best single volume on sports in the South.'' -- Charles Reagan Wilson, director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi

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Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
The Transformation of Southern Sport: Gender, Class, and Some Meanings of Modernity
The Manly, the Moral, and the Proficient: College Sport in the New South	p. 17
Baseball, the Lost Cause, and the New South in Richmond, Virginia	p. 52
"Dear Sisters" and "Hated Rivals": Athletics and Gender at Two New South Women's Colleges, 1893-1920	p. 81
Turning the Tide: College Football and Southern Progressivism	p. 101
Race Relations and Southern Sport: Athletics "Behind the Veil" and the Process of Desegregation
To "Bring the Race Along Rapidly": Sport, Student Culture, and Educational Mission at Historically Black Colleges during the Interwar Years	p. 129
"We Were Ladies, We Just Played Like Boys": African American Women and Competitive Basketball at Bennett College, 1928-42	p. 153
Integrating New Year's Day: The Racial Politics of College Bowl Games in the American South	p. 175
Baseball's Reluctant Challenge: Desegregating Major League Spring Training Sites, 1961-64	p. 200
"Something More Than the Game Will Be Lost": The 1963 Mississippi State Basketball Controversy and the Repeal of the Unwritten Law	p. 219
Myths, Symbols, and Stereotypes in Southern Sport: The Shaping of a Regional Identity
An Atheist in Alabama Is Someone Who Doesn't Believe in Bear Bryant: A Symbol for an Embattled South	p. 247
"The Tennessee Test of Manhood": Professional Wrestling and Southern Cultural Stereotypes	p. 276
The King, the Young Prince, and the Last Confederate Soldier: NASCAR on the Cusp	p. 294
Manhood, Memory, and White Men's Sports in the American South	p. 326
Contributors	p. 343
Index	p. 347
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