Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters
The Struggle over Segregated Recreation in America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19924474 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Victoria W Wolcott (0000-0002-8077-6399, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Pages | 320 |
| Publication date | 2012-12-31 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.9783/9780812207590 |
| OpenAlex | W2263577472 |
| Open Library | OL25198069M |
| ISBN | 9780812207590 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters tells the story of the battle for access to leisure space in cities across the United States. This detailed and eloquent history shows how African Americans fought to enter segregated amusement areas not only in pursuit of happiness but in connection to a wider movement for racial equality
Race (biology) · Sociology · American History and Culture · American Sports and Literature · Gender Studies · History · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · 20th century · African americans · Civil rights · race relations · Recreation · Segregation · united states
Race, Whiteness, and the Spaces and Places of Seaside Leisure
Bounded Cities
‘We want no more economic islands
Essential Business
I Live Here”
Black Girls Swim
Black mothers’ recreational choices for their children
Grounds for Fun
Interstate highways and the civil rights movement
The Right to the Beach? Urban Renewal, Public Space Policing and the Definition of a Beach Public in Postwar Los Angeles, 1940s-1960s
Sociohistorical contexts of racial violence
(Un)critical geographies of race
Servicing “intimate publics”
Power threats and radical healing in Black youths’ leisure
I Am Not Diversity Training”
Discrimination Experience and Park Visitation of People of Color
The myth of African American under-representation in nature tourism
Pickup Basketball in the Production of Black Community
Reappearance of the Public
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,46 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |