It’s more than just a game. A forerunner in the field of sports studies, the press has for years recognized sport’s ability to shape people’s lives as well as to elucidate the nuances of race, gender, and class identity. In recent decades we’ve built a deep list of monographs and collections that connect the work of researchers in the humanities and social sciences with professional academics and general readers alike.
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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.
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...
Each year, readers, writers, and critics alike look forward to Thomas Hauser’s newest collection of articles about the contemporary boxing scene. Reviewing his 2019 collection, Booklist proclaimed, “It’s hard to think of another sports journalist who knows more about...
