Sport and the Color Line (eBook, ePUB)

Black Athletes and Race Relations in Twentieth Century America
Redaktion: Miller, Patrick B.; Wiggins, David K.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Includes biographical sketches of Jackie Robinson, Joe Louis, Muhammed Ali and Michael JordanExamines the intersection of race and sports as well as the rise of the sports figure as endorsement franchiseIncludes 35 photographs

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135941161
• Artikelnr.: 39478993

Autorenporträt

Patrick B. Miller is Professor of History at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. David K. Wiggins is Professor of Sport History at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

Inhaltsangabe

I. Sport and Community in the Era of Jim Crow 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 Lomax 3. Year of the Comet: Jack Johnson vs. 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 Basketball Like Boys: African American Womanhood and Competitive Basketball at Bennett College
1928-42
Rita Liberti 6. A Special Type of Discipline: Manhood and Community in African American Institutions
1923-57
Pamela Grundy II. The Ordeal of Desegregation 7. Joe Louis: American Folk Hero
William H. Wiggins 8. End Jim Crow in Sports: The Leonard Bates Controversy and Protest at New York University
1940-1941
Donald Spivey 9. Jackie Robinson: A Lone 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 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
David K. Wiggin 15. The Greatest: Muhammad Ali's Confounding Character
David W. Zang 16. The Sports Spectacle
Michael Jordan
and Nike: The Paradoxes of Corporate Sport
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 21st Century
Harry Edwards Further Reading Contributors