By Rita Liberti,Maureen Smith
ISBN-10: 1682260208
ISBN-13: 9781682260203
San Francisco Bay sector Sports brings jointly fifteen essays masking the problems, controversies, and personalities that experience emerged as northern Californians recreated and competed over the past a hundred and fifty years. The area’s range, anti-establishment leanings, and exact and gorgeous average atmosphere are explored within the context of a dynamic carrying previous that comes with occasions broadcast to thousands or actions engaged in via only a few.
Professional and school occasions are lined besides lesser-known entities comparable to Oakland’s public parks, tennis participant and Bay sector local Rosie Casals, environmentalism and mountain climbing in Marin County, and the origins of the homosexual video games. Taken as an entire, this publication clarifies how game is attached to identities in line with sexuality, gender, race, and ethnicity. simply as an important, the tales right here light up how recreation and activity can very likely create transgressive areas, particularity in a spot recognized for its nonconformity.
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