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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Main Author: Aiello, Thomas, 1977- (Author)
Other Authors: Ingrassia, Brian M. (author of foreword.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2024]
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.