Sport and the color line : black athletes and race relations in twentieth-century America /
| Other Authors: | Miller, Patrick B., Wiggins, David K. 1951- |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2004
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Table of Contents:
- 1.
- Sport and Black Pittsburgh, 1900-1930 /
- Rob Ruck
- 2.
- Black Entrepreneurship in the National Pastime: The Rise of Semiprofessional Baseball in Black Chicago, 1890-1915 /
- Michael E. Lomax
- 3.
- Year of the Comet: Jack Johnson versus Jim Jeffries, July 4, 1910 /
- Randy Roberts
- 4.
- "A General Understanding": Organized Baseball and Black Professional Baseball, 1900-1930 /
- Neil Lanctot
- 5.
- "We were Ladies, we Just Played Like Boys": African-American Womanhood and Competitive Basketball at Bennett College, 1928-1942 /
- Rita Liberti
- 6.
- A Special Type of Discipline: Manhood and Community in Africa-American Institutions, 1923-1957 /
- Pamela Grundy
- 7.
- Joe Louis: American Folk Hero /
- William H. Wiggins, Jr.
- 8.
- "End Jim Crow in Sports": The Leonard Bates Controversy and Protest at New York University, 1940-1941 /
- Donald Spivey
- 9.
- Jackie Robins: "A Long Negro" in Major League Baseball /
- Jules Tygiel
- 10.
- More than a Game: The Political Meaning of High School Basketball in Indianapolis /
- Richard B. Pierce
- 11.
- "Cinderellas" of Sport: Black Women in Track and Field /
- Susan Cahn
- 12.
- Jim Crow in the Gymnasium: The Integration of College Basketball in the American South /
- Charles H. Martin
- 13.
- Civil Rights on the Gridiron: The Kennedy Administration and the Desegregation of the Washington Redskins /
- Thomas G. Smith
- 14.
- Edwin Bancroft Henderson, African-American Athletes, and the Writing of Sport History /
- David K. Wiggins
- 15.
- The Greatest: Muhammad Ali's Confounding Character /
- David W. Zang
- 16.
- The Sports Spectacle, Michael Jordan, and Nike /
- Douglas Kellner
- 17.
- The Anatomy of Scientific Racism: Racialist Responses to Black Athletic Achievement /
- Patrick B. Miller
- 18.
- Crisis of Black Athletes at the Outset of the Twenty-First Century /
- Harry Edwards.
