Introduction: Kids and Sport / Michael A. Messner and Michela Musto

Playing Fields: The Social Landscape of Youth Sports. Surveying youth sports in America : what we know and what it means for public policy / Don Sabo and Philip Veliz

Kids of color in the American sporting landscape : limited, concentrated, and controlled / Douglas Hartmann and Alex Manning

Girls and the racialization of female bodies in sport contexts / Cheryl Cooky and Lauren Rauscher

Sport and the childhood obesity epidemic / Toben F. Nelson

The children are our future : the NFL, corporate social responsibility, and the production of "avid fans" / Jeffrey Montez de Oca, Jeffrey Scholes, and Brandon Meyer

Fields of Play: Kids Navigating Sport Worlds. Athletes in the pool, girls and boys on deck : the contextual construction of gender in coed youth swimming / Michela Musto

The voices of boys on sport, health, and physical activity : the beginning of life through a gendered lens / Murray J.N. Drummond

"A right to the gym" : physical activity experiences of East African immigrant girls / Chelsey M. Thul, Nicole M. LaVoi, Torrie F. Hazelwood, and Fatimah Hussein

Transgender and gender-nonconforming kids and the binary requirements of sport participation in North America / Ann Travers

Examining boys, bodies, and PE locker room spaces : "I don't ever set foot in that locker room" / Michael Kehler

Park "rats" to park "daddies" : community heads creating future mentors / A. James McKeever

Afterword: Kids, sport research, and sport policy / William A. Corsaro.