Sporting Dystopias

Ralph C. Wilcox is Interim Vice President and Campus Executive Officer of the University of South Florida at St. Petersburg. He is the editor of Sport in the Global Village. David L. Andrews is Associate Professor of Kinesiology at the University of Maryland at College Park. He is the editor of Michael Jordan, Inc.: Corporate Sport, Media Culture, and Late Modern America, published by SUNY Press, and the coeditor (with Steven J. Jackson) of Sport Stars: The Cultural Politics of Sporting Celebrity. Robert Pitter is Assistant Professor of Recreation Management and Kinesiology at Acadia University.

• 1. Sport in the City: Cultural, Economic, and Political PortraitsRalph C. Wilcox and David L. Andrews 2. Sport and Community/CommunitasAlan G. Ingham and Mary G. McDonald 3. Mediated Sports, Mayors, and the Marketed MetropolisGene Burd 4. Urban(e) Statuary TimesSynthia Sydnor Slowikowski 5. No Christmas Dinner: The Effect of Major Sporting Events on Local HomelessnessRobin M. Mathy 6. Rounders or Robin Hoods? Questioning the Role of the Ticket Scalper As Entertainment Outlaw or Free Market CapitalistMichael F. Atkinson 7. Horse Racing in Chicago, 1883–1894: The Interplay of Class, Politics, and Organized CrimeSteven A. Riess 8. Athletics in the Ward and Beyond: Neighborhoods, Jews, and Sport in Toronto, 1900–1939 Danny Rosenberg 9. Urban Sanctuary: Youth Culture in a Recreation Drop-in CenterBrian Wilson and Phil White 10. Researching Youth Sports Programs in a Metropolitan Setting: Essentials of, Barriers to, and Policy for Achieving a Comprehensive ProgramMichael A. Clark 11. Soccer, Race, and Suburban Space David L. Andrews, Robert Pitter, Detlev Zwick, and Darren Ambrose 12. The New Politics of Urban Consumption: Hoop Dreams, Clockers, and "America"CL Cole and Samantha King 13. In Place of "Race," Space: "Basketball in Canada" and the Absence of RacismGamal Abdel-Shehid 14. Driving the Lane against the Raptor: The Production and Racialization of (Transgressive) Subjects on the Streets of TorontoAndrew D. Thornton List of Contributors Index Books in the SUNY series on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations