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“I is Unruffable”: Rereading African American Sports Performances as Unique Expressions of Dissent

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October 25, 2011

“I is Unruffable”: Rereading African American Sports Performances as Unique Expressions of Dissent resistance Negro Leagues Mediating Baseball Jim Crow Dissent Black Masculinity Black Baseball Curator's Note At the end of the nineteenth century, amat ...

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Modern-day baseball and Blacks

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Nicholas David Bowman West Virginia University

Tuesday, October 25, 2011 — 11:48 am

children are taking up the game through the professional ranks. At least, public discourse over the last ...

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Re: The Interactive Audience

Interactivity as perception?

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Nicholas David Bowman West Virginia University

Tuesday, October 25, 2011 — 11:58 am

least to me) are key to understanding one's virtual experience (or arguable, simply their ...

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Re: Melting Pot or Multiculturalism? Mediating Ethnicity in Baseball

Ethnicity/Race/Nationality

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Elizabeth Rawitsch University of East Anglia

Tuesday, October 25, 2011 — 5:29 pm

cautious shift in racial and ethnic tolerance that followed World War II-- when baseball was beginning to ...

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Tagging Fans, Tweeting Beards: Major League Baseball, social media, and the body

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Annie Dell'Aria The Graduate Center, CUNY

October 26, 2011

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Tagging Fans, Tweeting Beards: Major League Baseball, social media, and the body twitter the body tag MLB Mediating Baseball fan practices Baseball Curator's Note One way Major League Baseball promotes an avid fandom through social media is the MLB F ...

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