... American women's own identity constructions; campus social and leisure culture; and the flawed pluralism in America and American campus culture. “Fitting in ” George Washington University Washington D C Intisar Sports Stigma Bend it Like Beckham Hijab Stereotypes dodging College Racism Amber...

... in seedy opium dens, with eyes glazed over, as popularly depicted in the Western media. On the contrary, users came together in social and fraternal halls that scarcely differed in any way from other well-ordered and respectable venues of leisure activity and social intermingling. China revolutionary...

... South leisure cultural development patriarchal society South recreation C. Vann Woodward begins his American Counterpoint with a lengthy treatment of southern leisure. He points out that, like so many other myths about the South, this one tends to be “Janusfaced,” to present...

..., and provided a number of services unavailable elsewhere. It also gave them a novel sense of control over a realm of leisure whether as a proprietor or a customer. However, as the chapter makes clear, saloons provided opportunities for others to criminalize them, or for them to participate in criminal...

...This chapter examines Black women’s “active recreation” - leisure activities that require endurance, strength, and agility - during the Great Depression. It argues that active recreation provided Black women with a forum to express national belonging through leisure behaviors that exemplified...

.... This movement developed a wide repertoire of public protest actions that included both women and men and often took place in consumer or leisure-oriented spaces such as movie theaters, department stores, and commercial thoroughfares. But the rise of state violence and the turn to armed opposition fostered...

..., working-class whites, African Americans, immigrants, and the middle class. It describes the social, cultural, and institutional transformation of municipal swimming pools from austere public baths to leisure resorts, as well as their desegregation, which led to the proliferation of private swimming pools...

...This chapter examines the redesign of municipal swimming pools as leisure resorts throughout the United States during the 1920s and 1930s that resulted in the democratization of swimming. The pools of the interwar years came in various shapes and provided considerable leisure space, from sandy...

... of the Americas at the time. Despite Petrona's attempts to reach a broader audience that included working-class women during the late 1940s, she continued to cater to an audience with ample leisure time and money. During the 1950s, Argentina increasingly turned away from Europe a source of inspiration and looked...

... leisure pastimes, such as music, dancing, and time spent in salons and cafes, revealed social tensions, often creating public uproars and consternation. The chapter ends with an analysis of how gender distinctions, including conceptions of masculinity, began to unravel, leading to new freedoms...

...This concluding chapter argues that the marginalized Chicagoans who lived in twentieth-century America drew an ecologically problematic line between the “artificial” city and nature and sought to cross it during their leisure. Their desire for contact with nature was not innate but rather...

... commercial leisure, and how they shaped their entertainments through their pocketbooks and personal tastes as much as popular entertainments fueled their own sense of themselves as modern New Yorkers. When Tenderloin residents spent their nights out, they financed the development of black-owned nightclubs...

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...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 book offers a reference to the culture of sports and recreation...

... and African Americans in rapidly industrializing Chicago also fled the urban environment during their scarce leisure time. While narrating a crucial era in the history of Chicago’s urban development, the book makes important interventions in debates about working-class leisure, the history of urban parks...

.... Black beaches not only provided black southerners places of leisure and entertainment; they also spawned a variety of commercial activity and considerable capital investment. The types of black beaches found across the South—from serene, religious retreats to bawdy, seaside stops on the “chitlin circuit...

..., enjoying independence, filling their leisure time, and changing the demographics of Washington. For those who chose to do so, female federal employees’ salaries, newly acquired political knowledge, and personal associations provided them with the financial and practical wherewithal to participate...

... strip where black professionals lived. Like their white neighbors in Back of the Yards, poor African Americans had to contend with unpleasant and dangerous environmental situations. Leisure afforded some escape from work, and like other foreigners, most African Americans enjoyed their leisure indoors...

...Black beaches proliferated across the coastal South in the 1940s and 1950s and became thriving centers of black leisure and entertainment and incubators of post-World War II black popular music and culture. The chapter tells the history of Carr’s and Sparrow’s Beaches in Annapolis, Maryland...

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