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.
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...
LISTEN HERE Dr. Terry Anne Scott joined the inaugural podcast of the Seattle University's Department of Kinesiology to discuss Seattle Sports, her new anthology on the history of Seattle’s sports culture, and how diversity and social progress are uniquely reflected in...
First published in 2016 as part of the University of Arkansas Press's Sport, Culture, and Society Series, the award-winning Separate Games, edited by David K. Wiggins and Ryan A. Swanson, is now available in paperback. Winner of the 2017 book award from the North...
Seattle Sports: Play, Identity, and Pursuit in the Emerald City, edited by Terry Anne Scott, explores the vast and varied history of sports in this city where diversity and social progress are reflected in and reinforced by play. The work gathered here covers...
“DC Sports would be a useful addition to undergraduate courses in sports history, sociology, and African American studies.” —Journal of Sport History, Summer 2016 “Swanson and Wiggins have assembled a collection of ambitious scope and compelling topics that...
