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Sport and the color line : black athletes and race relations in twentieth-century America / / edited by Patrick B. Miller, and David K. Wiggins



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Titolo: Sport and the color line : black athletes and race relations in twentieth-century America / / edited by Patrick B. Miller, and David K. Wiggins Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2004
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (465 p.)
Disciplina: 796/.089/96073
Soggetto topico: Racism in sports - United States - History - 20th century
African American athletes - History - 20th century
Discrimination in sports - United States - History - 20th century
Soggetto geografico: United States Race relations History 20th century
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Altri autori: MillerPatrick B  
WigginsDavid Kenneth <1951->  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: SPORT AND THE COLOR LINE Black Athletes and Race Relations in Twentieth-CenturyAmerica; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; I Sport and Community in the Era of JimCrow; 1 Sport and Black Pittsburgh, 1900-1930; 2 Black Entrepreneurship in the National Pastime The Rise of Semiprofessional Baseball in Black Chicago, 1890-1915; 3 Year of the Comet Jack Johnson versus Jim Jeffries, July 4, 1910; 4 "A General Understanding" Organized Baseball and Black Professional Baseball, 1900-1930
5 "We Were Ladies, we Just Played Like Boys" African-American Womanhood and Competitive Basketball at Bennett College,1928-19426 A Special Type of Discipline Manhood and Community in African-American Institutions, 1923-1957; II The Ordeal of Desegregation; 7 Joe Louis: American Folk hero; 8 "End Jim Crow in Sports" The Leonard Bates Controversy and Protest at New York University, 1940-1941; 9 Jackie Robinson "A Lone Negro" in Major League Baseball; 10 More Than aGame The Political Meaning of High School Basketball in Indianapolis; 11 "Cinderellas" of Sport Black Women in Track and Field
12 Jim Crow in The Gymnasium The Integration of College Basketball in the American South13 Civil Rights on the Gridiron The Kennedy Administration and the Desegregation of the Washington Redskins; III Images of the Black Athlete and the Racial Politics of Sport; 14 Edwin Bancroft Henderson, African-American Athletes,and the Writing of Sport History; 15 The Greatest Muhammad Ali's Confounding Character; 16 The Sports Spectacle, Michael Jordan, and Nike; 17 The Anatomy of Scientific Racism Racialist Responses to Black Athletic Achievement
18 Crisis of Black Athletes at The Outset of the Twenty-First CenturyFurther Reading; Contributors; Permissions Acknowledgments; Index
Sommario/riassunto: The year 2003 marks the one-hundredth anniversary of W.E.B. Du Bois' Souls of Black Folk, in which he declared that ""the color line"" would be the problem of the twentieth century. Half a century later, Jackie Robinson would display his remarkable athletic skills in ""baseball's great experiment."" Now, Sport and the Color Line takes a look at the last century through the lens of sports and race, drawing together articles by many of the leading figures in Sport Studies to address the African American experience and the history of race relations.The history o
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ISBN: 0-415-94610-7
1-135-94117-3
1-280-05317-8
0-203-49745-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910457447403321
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