The best pitcher in baseball : the life of Rube Foster, Negro League giant / / Robert Charles Cottrell |
Autore | Cottrell Robert C. <1950-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : New York University Press, c2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (232 pages) |
Disciplina |
796.357/092
B |
Soggetto topico |
Baseball players - United States
African American baseball players Baseball team owners - United States Negro leagues - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
Foster
Negro Rube baseball biography figure important most revealing |
ISBN |
0-8147-9040-2
0-585-43474-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- ONE. The Best Pitcher in the Country -- TWO. At the Top of His Game -- THREE. A Return to the Midwest -- FOUR. The Leland Giants -- FIVE. The Chicago American Giants and the Making of a Black Baseball Dynasty -- SIX. Another Championship -- SEVEN. The Dynasty Is Interrupted -- EIGHT. Back on Top in Wartime -- NINE. Rube Ball -- TEN. Black Baseball and the Segregated Community -- ELEVEN. Organizing Black Baseball -- TWELVE. Czar of Black Baseball -- THIRTEEN. Rube Foster’s Legacy -- FOURTEEN. The Drive to Cooperstown -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780181103321 |
Cottrell Robert C. <1950-> | ||
New York, : New York University Press, c2001 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Race for Citizenship : Black Orientalism and Asian Uplift from Pre-Emancipation to Neoliberal America / / Helen Heran Jun |
Autore | Jun Helen Heran |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2011] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (209 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.896073 |
Collana | Nation of Nations |
Soggetto topico |
Orientalism - United States - History
Asian Americans - Social conditions African Americans - Social conditions Citizenship - United States - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
Soggetto non controllato |
19th
African American Asian II-era Negro Problem Question Rights World Yellow acutely around became century citizenship disenfranchisement examines globalization identity late loyalty mid- moments national post-Civil questions race three under visible when |
ISBN | 0-8147-4332-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Press for Inclusion. Nineteenth-Century Black Citizenship and the Anti-Chinese Movement -- 2. “When and Where I Enter . . .”. Orientalism in Anna Julia Cooper’s Narratives of Modern Black Womanhood -- 3. Blackness, Manhood, and the Aftermath of Internment in John Okada’s No-No Boy (1957) -- 4. Becoming Korean American. Blackface and Gendered Racialization in Ronyoung Kim’s Clay Walls (1987) -- Introduction -- 5. Black Surplus in the Pacific Century. Ownership and Dispossession in the Hood Film -- 6. Asian Americans in the Age of Neoliberalism. Human Capital and Bad Choices in a.k.a. Don Bonus (1995) and Better Luck Tomorrow (2002) -- Afterword -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996582064803316 |
Jun Helen Heran | ||
New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2011] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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