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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825197803321

Autore

Newman Roberta J

Titolo

Black baseball, black business : race enterprise and the fate of the segregated dollar / / Roberta J. Newman and Joel Nathan Rosen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, Mississippi : , : University Press of Mississippi, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-62674-008-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RosenJoel Nathan <1961->

Disciplina

796.357/64

Soggetti

Negro leagues - Economic aspects

Business enterprises, Black - History - 20th century

Discrimination in sports - United States - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Heading Downtown; Rediscovering a Total Institution; 1 Black Business and Consciousness in Context; 2 Capitalizing Black Baseball and the African American Economic Ecosystem, 1914-1929; 3 The Depression, Black Business, and Black Baseball Revisited, 1930-1939; 4 The Second Wave and the Business of Black Baseball, 1939-1946; 5 Desegregating Baseball and Its Economic Implications, 1946-1948; 6 Black Baseball's Post-Robinson Challenge, 1949-1963; Postscript: What Has the Promise Wrought?; Acknowledgments; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M

NO; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

An extraordinary history of the negro leagues and the economic disruptions of desegregating a sport