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Book Review


Contested Waters: A Social History of Swimming Pools in America. By Jeff Wiltse. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xii, 276 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3100-7.)
Jeff Wiltse begins Contested Waters with a story about a young black boy who, in 1951, could "swim" in a Youngstown pool only after everyone else left the water, he boarded a rubber raft, and promised not to touch the water. It is a good starting point, for it introduces the topic of swimming pools in American history with its most standard social association—extreme racist paranoia. What Wiltse shows in this well-written account, however, is that racism is only half the story. . . .
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