Northsiders

Author : Gerald C. Wood,Andrew Hazucha
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-21
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786436231

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Northsiders by Gerald C. Wood,Andrew Hazucha Pdf

This collection of 19 essays examine the role of baseball's Cubs in the history and politics of Chicago. They focus on topics such as the rise of a nationwide fan base through the long reach of superstation WGN; the local uses and views of icons Ernie Banks, Ron Santo, and Ryne Sandberg; historical divides along lines of race (on the field) and class (in the stands); Wrigley Field as a public space both sacred and cursed; the importance of local and nationwide media coverage; and the Cubs' impact on Chicago music and literature.

Author : Elizabeth Korver-Glenn,Sarah Mayorga
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226833859

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A Good Reputation by Elizabeth Korver-Glenn,Sarah Mayorga Pdf

"What kind of reputation does your neighborhood have, and how does this affect your daily life? Are you embarassed or proud when you share this information or when friends come over for dinner? Are you surrounded by businesses that cater to your needs and reflect your sense of self, or does your heart sink when you gaze down your block? As sociologists Elizabeth Korver-Glenn and Sarah Mayorga demonstrate in A Good Reputation, people's feelings about their neighborhood and its reputation have an outsized effect on either addressing or driving inequality. In this book, they take a close look at Houston, Texas's historic Northside barrio-a high-poverty urban neighborhood. Drawing on two years of ethnographic research and in-depth interviews with poor, working-class, and middle-class Latinx people and additional interviews with Black, White, and multiracial local stakeholders, they examine how and why neighborhood reputation shapes unequal urban processes. The authors center people's own perceptions of their neighborhood, leveraging these data to foreground how neighborhood heterogeneity, Whiteness, and placemaking intersect with and shape stakeholders' constructions of neighborhood reputation. Korver-Glenn and Mayorga ultimately demonstrate how constructing a neighborhood as "nice" or "ghetto" has profound implications for neighborhood inequality. In the process, they develop a theoretically rich, empirically detailed account of urban neighborhood inequality that brings to the fore understudied communities, processes of relation formation across class and racial lines, and ways these communities develop cultural logics about specific places"--

Author : Frank Meeink,Jody M. Roy
Publisher : Hawthorne Books
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780979018824

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Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead by Frank Meeink,Jody M. Roy Pdf

Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead is Frank Meeink's raw telling of his descent into America's Nazi underground and his ultimate triumph over drugs and hatred. Frank's violent childhood in South Philadelphia primed him to hate, while addiction made him easy prey for a small group of skinhead gang recruiters. By 16 he had become one of the most notorious skinhead gang leaders on the East Coast and by 18 he was doing hard time. Teamed up with African-American players in a prison football league, Frank learnedto question his hatred, and after being paroled he defected from the white supremacy movement and began speaking on behalf of the Anti-Defamation League. A story of fighting the demons of hatred and addiction, Frank's downfall and ultimate redemption has the power to open hearts and change lives.

Author : Richard Worth
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786491247

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Baseball Team Names by Richard Worth Pdf

Professional baseball is full of arcane team names. The Los Angeles Dodgers, for instance, owe their nickname to the trolley tracks that honeycombed Brooklyn in the early 1880s. (Residents were "trolley dodgers.") From the Negro Leagues, there were the Pittsburgh Crawfords (sponsored early by the Crawford Bath House and Recreation Center); from the minors, the Tucson Waddies (slang for cowboy) and, later, the Montgomery Biscuits (for the would-be concessions staple); from overseas, the Adelaide, Australia, Bite (a shark reference but also a pun for bight) and the Bussum, Netherlands, Mr. Cocker HCAW (the sponsoring restaurant chain, followed by the acronym for the official team name, Honkbalclub Allan Weerbaar). This comprehensive reference book explains the nicknames of thousands of major and minor league franchises, Negro League and early independent black clubs, and international teams--from 1869 through 2011.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105060012890

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Communities in Action by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lindsey Garratt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317241348

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The Body, Authenticity and Racism by Lindsey Garratt Pdf

The modern world may believe that authenticity empowers us to be our true selves. However, is this really true for all people? Would authenticity be accepted by others if it does not fit within the conceptions of those who embody "nationally authorised" attributes? Drawing upon an in-depth study of young children in Dublin’s North inner city, The Body, Authenticity and Racism offers detailed insight into how racism is created and perpetuated within 7–9-year-old boys’ interactions with one another. Indeed, through unique empirical data, this enlightening title demonstrates the importance of discussing the body when examining racism – not only in how the body is judged and racialised by other people, but how it is an apparent medium through which racism operates and disappears into. Garratt also explores how masculinity, belonging to a local area and being accepted as ‘Irish’ is intricately interwoven within gendered and racist assumptions; which comes not only from wider discourses but are actively constructed and reconstructed by children themselves. Using a Bourdieusian method of analysis and phenomenological philosophy, this book ultimately highlights the role of authenticity in hiding racism amongst children. A timely volume, it will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as postdoctoral researchers interested in fields such as Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Irish Studies and Masculinities Studies.

Author : Frank W. Pandozzi
Publisher : Infinity Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Vietnamese fiction
ISBN : 9780741417411

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North Side Story by Frank W. Pandozzi Pdf

They were called the Back Alley Boys and best define the North Side of Syracuse, New York during the '50s and '60s. Although not as legendary as the "Dead End Kids" portrayed in the movies of the 1930s, they had their own flare for drama. But North Side story is not just a story about growing up on the North Side in the '50s and '60s. It is also a story of a changing neighborhood. Names like Stretch, Axle, Scams, and Boogers are now gone. Today the North Side residents have names like Cuong, Danh, and Ai'. Just as the immigrant grandparents of the Back Alley Boys had once struggled to come to this country, so did the Vietnamese "boatpeople." North Side story is their story as well.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : UCAL:B3957416

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Caribbean Studies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Aileen O’Carroll,Don Bennett
Publisher : Merrion Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781911024873

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The Dublin Docker by Aileen O’Carroll,Don Bennett Pdf

As a port city, Dublin owes much to the labourers who strove against the heavy-duty tide of imports and exports; a league of thousands who were hired on a day-to-day basis for generations, defining the bustle of Dublin city centre – a cornerstone of the urban industrial working class in Ireland. The Dublin Docker is a sumptuously illustrated history that determines the dockers’ and stevedores’ importance as an industrial subculture within the Dublin that they navigated. The authors excavated the archive of the Dublin Dockworkers Preservation Society to discover a wealth of photographs, spanning the mid-nineteenth century to the 1970s, that capture the dockers’ arduous labour and the energy of Dublin port. These evocative images bring this beautifully designed social history to life, complementing the inimitable voices revealed in interviews with the dockers themselves. How they negotiated working hours and pay, the changes that came with epochal events – the Dublin Lockout, the First World War, the Easter Rising and War of Independence – and the innumerable myths and ‘dark stories’ that shrouded their image: The Dublin Docker is a history of the dockers and their deep-woven connection to the city.

Author : James Robert Allison
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300206692

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Sovereignty for Survival by James Robert Allison Pdf

Explores the influence of America's indigenous peoples on energy policy and development, documenting how certain federally supported and often environmentally damaging energy projects were seen as threats by native American and sparked a pan-tribal resistance movement leading to increased autonomy.

Author : Des MacHale
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781856357135

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Dublin Wit by Des MacHale Pdf

A tribute to the unique wit of Dublin written by Ireland's most prolific joke book and humor writer.

Author : Patrick J. Finn
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781438428048

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Literacy with an Attitude, Second Edition by Patrick J. Finn Pdf

A comprehensive update of the classic study that delivers both a passionate plea and strategies for teachers, parents, and community organizers to give working-class children the same type of empowering education and powerful literacy skills that the children of upper- and middle-class people receive.

Author : Albert Velazquez
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781640289901

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The Messiah 8 with the 3rd Anti Christ by Albert Velazquez Pdf

This book is about the holy grail and God passing judgment on mankind and the father of this holy divine story being dragged to the gates of Hell and leaving his begotten son with the sword of destiny. This book also tells about angels and demons and saints and the movement of the reaper among the humans on Earth. At the end of this eternal dark world of destiny the divine son finds the redemption of his father with his sword of destiny at the end of the road.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004490741

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Joyce: Feminism / Post / Colonialism by Anonim Pdf

James Joyce is located between, and constructed within, two worlds: the national and international, the political and cultural systems of colonialism and postcolonialism. Joyce's political project is to construct a postcolonial contra-modernity: to write the incommensurable differences of colonial, postcolonial, and gendered subjectivities, and, in doing so, to reorient the axis of power and knowledge. What Joyce dramatizes in his hybrid writing is the political and cultural remainder of imperial history or patriarchal canons: a remainder that resists assimilation into the totalizing narratives of modernity. Through this remainder - of both politics and the psyche - Joyce reveals how a minority culture can construct political and personal agency. Joyce: Feminism / Post / Colonialism, edited by Ellen Carol Jones, bears witness to the construction of that agency, tracing the inscription of the racial and sexual other in colonial, nationalist, and postnational representations, deciphering the history of the possible. Contributors are Gregory Castle, Gerald Doherty, Enda Duffy, James Fairhall, Peter Hitchcock, Ellen Carol Jones, Ranjana Khanna, Patrick McGee, Marilyn Reizbaum, Susan de Sola Rodstein, Carol Shloss, and David Spurr.

Author : James T. Joyce
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781469777689

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The Guys in the Gang by James T. Joyce Pdf

An Irish Catholic neighborhood of the 1960s on Chicago's Southside that nurtured camaraderie, religion and racial fury; the frequently illegal antics of teenaged boys; the broadening experiences of college and the Army; an assortment of jobs from brutally boring factory work, to business in foreign embassies, to fighting fires; people met and befriended from the super rich to inept Korean golfers who feared tigers; religion, and how confusing it can be.