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Canoe and Canvas: Life at the Encampments of the American Canoe Association, 18801910

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Canoe and Canvas: Life at the Encampments of the American Canoe Association, 18801910
Canoe and Canvas: Life at the Encampments of the American Canoe Association, 18801910

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Canoe and Canvas: Life at the Encampments of the American Canoe Association, 18801910

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A social history of sport, is particularly concerned with how gender, class, and race shaped the social, cultural, and physical landscapes of the ACA encampments. Although there was an ever-expanding arena of opportunity for leisure and sport in the late nineteenth century, as the example of the ACA makes clear, not all were granted equal access. Most of the members of the American Canoe Association and the majority of the campers at the annual encampments were white, middle-class men, though white women were extended partial membership in 1882, and in 1883, they were permitted to camp on site. also reveals how Black, Indigenous, and working-class people, while obscured in the historical record, were indispensable to the smooth functioning of these events through their labour.

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