White ice : race and the making of Atlanta hockey /
"When NHL commissioner Clarence Campbell announced that Atlanta had received an NHL franchise, ownership was tasked with selling a northern game that most of the city's Black residents had never experienced. The team marketed itself to upper-middle class White residents by portraying a hoc...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Knoxville :
The University of Tennessee Press,
[2024]
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Edition: | First edition. |
Series: | Sports and Popular Culture Series.
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Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Brian M. Ingrassia
- Prologue
- Atlanta and the Birth of Southern Hockey
- The Hockey War
- Clarence Campbell's March to the Sea
- The Cosmopolitan City of the South
- Building a Team
- The Birth of the Thrashers
- The Second Ice Age Arrives
- Epilogue.