To cities, sports have never been just entertainment. Progressive urbanites across the United States have used athletics to address persistent problems in city life: the fights for racial justice, workers' rights, equality for women and LGBTQ+ city dwellers, and environmental conservation. In Seattle, sports initiatives have powered meaningful reforms, such as popular stadium projects that promoted investments in public housing and mass transit. At the same time, conservative forces also used sports to consolidate their power and mobilize against the civic good. In Heartbreak City Shaun Scott takes the reader through 170 years of Seattle history, chronicling both well-known and long-forgotten events, like the establishment of racially segregated golf courses and neighborhoods in the regressive 1920s and the 1987 Seahawks players' strike that galvanized organized labor. At every step of the journey, he uncovers how sports have both united Seattle in pursuit of triumph and revealed its most profound political divides. Deep archival research and analysis combine in this people's history of a great American city's quest to become even greater-if only it could get out of its own way.
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Gewebe-Einband
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33 b&w illus. - 33 Illustrations, black and white
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Höhe: 236 mm
Breite: 160 mm
Dicke: 30 mm
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978-0-295-75199-3 (9780295751993)
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Shaun Scott is a Seattle writer, organizer, and filmmaker. His writing has appeared in local venues such as Crosscut and The Seattle Weekly and broader platforms such as The Guardian, Jacobin, and Sports Illustrated. His films include Seat of Empire, a documentary that covers a century and a half of Seattle history. He is author of Millennials and the Moments That Made Us: A Cultural History of the U.S. from 1982-Present (Zero Books, 2018).
