Game of privilege : an African American history of golf / / by Lane Demas

• Autore: Demas Lane
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill : , : University of North Carolina Press, , [2017]; Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2017; ©[2017]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (363 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 796.3520973; 796.3520896073
• Soggetto topico: Discrimination in sports - United States - History; Golf - United States - History; Golf - Social aspects - United States; African Americans - Civil rights - History; African American golfers - History
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2017.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Real democracy is found on the links : African Americans and the origins of golf in the United States -- One hears of Negro country clubs : golfing the Great Migration and Harlem Renaissance -- Our masters : the development of the United Golfers Association -- I will take your own golf stick and wham the world : golf and the postwar civil rights movement -- Guns in their golf bags : Black Power on the links -- Thai people don't get hate mail : race and golf in the age of Tiger Woods.
• Sommario/riassunto: This groundbreaking history of African Americans and golf explores the role of race, class, and public space in golf course development, the stories of individual black golfers during the age of segregation, the legal battle to integrate public golf courses, and the little-known history of the United Golfers Association (UGA) - a black golf tour that operated from 1925 to 1975.
• Titolo autorizzato: Game of privilege
• ISBN: 979-88-908507-2-0; 1-4696-3423-6; 1-4696-3424-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910669820603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.