Sport, Culture, and Society is a series from the University of Arkansas Press that published monographs and collections for academics and general readers in the humanities and social sciences. Its focus was the role of sport in the development of community and the forging of individual, local, regional, and national identities.
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Sport is an extraordinarily important phenomenon that pervades the lives of many people and has enormous impact on society in an assortment of different ways. At its most fundamental level, sport has the power to bring people great joy and satisfy their competitive urges while at once allowing them to form bonds and a sense of community with others from diverse backgrounds and interests and various walks of life. Sport also makes clear, especially at the highest levels of competition, the lengths that people will go to achieve victory as well as how closely connected it is to business, education, politics, economics, religion, law, family, law, family, and other societal institutions. Sport is, moreover, partly about identity development and how individuals and groups, irrespective of race, gender, ethnicity or socioeconomic class, have sought to elevate their status and realize material success and social mobility.
Sport, Culture, and Society seeks to promote a greater understanding of the aforementioned issues and many others. Recognizing sport’s powerful influence and ability to change people’s lives in significant and important ways, the series focuses on topics ranging from urbanization and community development to biography and intercollegiate athletics. It includes both monographs and anthologies that are characterized by excellent scholarship, accessible to a wide audience, and interesting and thoughtful in design and interpretations. Singular features of the series are authors and editors representing a variety of disciplinary areas and who adopt different methodological approaches. The series also includes works by individuals at various stages of their careers, both sport studies scholars of outstanding talent just beginning to make their mark on the field and more experienced scholars of sport with established reputations.
Luiz Guilherme Burlamaqui has reviewed Olimpismo: The Olympic Movement in the Making of Latin America and the Caribbean in the Journal of Sport History: “It is not unusual for historians and social scientists to present the history of Latin America and the Caribbean...
George Dixon: The Short Life of Boxing’s First Black World Champion, 1870–1908 by Jason Winders is now available, and 25% off when you order at uapress.com On September 6, 1892, a diminutive Black prizefighter brutally dispatched an overmatched white hope in the New...
Hall of Fame boxing writer Tom Hauser has reviewed George Dixon: The Short Life of Boxing’s First Black World Champion, 1870–1908 by Jason Winders for The Sweet Science. Less than a year after Dixon died, Jack Johnson journeyed to Australia and dethroned Tommy...
Battling Siki: A Tale of Ring Fixes, Race, and Murder in the 1920s by Peter Benson is the University of Arkansas Press Book of the Month for June! Both the hardcover and paperback versions of the book will be 50% for the month of June. Battling Siki (1887–1925) was...
Dave Zirin speaks to Maria Veri and Rita Liberti about their book Gridiron Gourmet: Gender and Food at the Football Tailgate at The Nation. Listen here. On football weekends in the United States, thousands of fans gather in the parking lots outside of stadiums, where...
“Taken as a whole, [these essays] make an important contribution to the historiography of sport in New Orleans and to the broader history of the urban South. … New Orleans is unique, but, as this collection shows, it is also closely tied to the larger South and the...
The University of Arkansas Press announces the forthcoming publication of Broken Dreams: Another Year Inside Boxing by Thomas Hauser. Each year, readers, writers, and critics alike look forward to Thomas Hauser’s newest collection of articles about the contemporary...
“Although it is often celebrated for its sunshine, palm trees, and movie stars, Los Angeles also boasts a rich sporting history. Through compiling the essays for this volume, Wayne Wilson and David K. Wiggins offer an insightful cross-section of the city’s sporting...
The University of Arkansas Press announces the forthcoming publication of George Dixon: The Short Life of Boxing's First Black World Champion, 1870–1908 by Jason Winders. In this work of sporting and social history we have a biography of Canadian-born, Boston-raised...
The Journal of Southern History has reviewed New Orleans Sports: Playing Hard in the Big Easy, edited by Thomas Aiello: “New Orleans Sports: Playing Hard in the Big Easy is a collection of thirteen diverse chapters linked by an attempt to explain the unique sporting...
