| #3081003 in Books | Rutgers University Press | 2005-04-19 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.06 x.70 x6.06l,1.07 | File type: PDF | 304 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Great|By Customer|Great|3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| A state-of-the-art work...|By Sam the fan|It's all here: beginning with one baseball field this book examines parenting, gender roles, urban race relations, gentrification and social class in the contemporary US city. But the most amazing part about it||
"An inspired and inspiring look at the rhythms of life in and around urban youth baseball. By showing how men and boys nurture each other and how bonds of friendship grow across class and racial divides, Sherri Grasmuck shatters our stereotypes surroundin
What can neighborhood baseball tell us about class and gender cultures, urban change, and the ways that communities value public space? Through a close exploration of a boys’ baseball league in a gentrifying neighborhood of Philadelphia, sociologist Sherri Grasmuck reveals the accommodations and tensions that characterize multicultural encounters in contemporary American public life. Based on years of ethnographic observation and interviews with children, p...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Protecting Home: Class, Race, and Masculinity in Boys' Baseball | Sherri Grasmuck. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
