Sports & Recreation

by Charles Reagan Wilson and Harvey H. Jackson III

Book Overview

What southerners do, where they go, and what they expect to accomplish in their spare time, their "leisure," reveals much about their cultural values, class and racial similarities and differences, and historical perspectives. This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture offers an authoritative and readable reference to the culture of sports and recreation in the American South, surveying the various activities in which southerners...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807871737
• ISBN13: 9780807871737
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"