Fields of Play: Sport, Race, and Memory in the Steel City

by Robert Hayashi

Book Overview

Americans love sports, from neighborhood pickup basketball to the National Football League, and everything in between. While no city better demonstrates the connection between athletic games and community than Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the common association of the city's professional sports teams with its blue-collar industrial past illustrates a white nostalgic perspective that excludes the voices of many who labored in the mines and mills and played...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822947846
• ISBN13: 9780822947844
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"