When baseball isn't white, straight and male : the media and difference in the national pastime /
"This book analyzes how sportswriters discuss issues of race, ethnicity, nationality, sexual identity, age, and class within professional baseball from 1998 to present. Each chapter looks at the media representations of a specific controversy ... as well as incidents involving performance-enhan...
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| Format: | Llibre |
| Idioma: | English |
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc.,
[2013]
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| Sumari: | "This book analyzes how sportswriters discuss issues of race, ethnicity, nationality, sexual identity, age, and class within professional baseball from 1998 to present. Each chapter looks at the media representations of a specific controversy ... as well as incidents involving performance-enhancing drugs. The author ... reveals what messages are being conveyed by the issues."--Back cover. |
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| Descripció física: | 194 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780786471133 0786471131 |