Moving Boarders: Skateboarding and the Changing Landscape of Urban Youth Sports

by E. Missy Wright, Matthew Atencio, Becky Beal, et al.

Book Overview

Once considered a kind of delinquent activity, skateboarding is on track to join soccer, baseball, and basketball as an approved way for American children to pass the after-school hours. With family skateboarding in the San Francisco Bay Area as its focus, Moving Boarders explores this switch in stance, integrating first-person interviews and direct observations to provide a rich portrait of youth skateboarders, their parents, and the social...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1682260798
• ISBN13: 9781682260791
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
• Length: 315 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"