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Sport and the color line : Black athletes and race relations in twentieth-century America

Title
  1. Sport and the color line : Black athletes and race relations in twentieth-century America / edited by Patrick B. Miller and David K. Wiggins.
Published by
  1. New York : Routledge, 2004.

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Additional authors
  1. Miller, Patrick B.
  2. Wiggins, David K. (David Kenneth), 1951-
Description
  1. xii, 382 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
Subject
  1. African American athletes > History > 20th century
  2. Racism in sports > United States > History > 20th century
  3. United States > Race relations > History > 20th century
  4. Discrimination in sports > United States > History > 20th century
Contents
  1. Sport and Black Pittsburgh, 1900-1930 / Rob Ruck -- Black entrepreneurship in the national pastime / Michael E. Lomax -- Year of the comet : Jack Johnson versus Jim Jeffries, July 4, 1910 / Randy Roberts -- "A general understanding" : organized baseball and Black professional baseball, 1900-1930 / Neil Lanctot -- "We were ladies, we just played like boys" : African-American womanhood and competitive basketball at Bennett College, 1928-1942 / Rita Liberti -- A special type of discipline : manhood and community in African-American institutions, 1923-1957 / Pamela Grundy -- Joe Louis / William H. Wiggins, Jr. -- "End Jim Crow in sports: : the Leonard Bates controversy and protest at New York University, 1940-1941 / Donald Spivey -- Jackie Robinson / Jules Tygiel -- More than a game : the political meaning of high school basketball in Indianapolis / Richard B. Pierce -- "Cinderellas" of sport : Black women in track and field / Susan Cahn -- Jim Crow in the gymnasium : the integration of college basketball in the American South / Charles H. Martin -- Civil rights on the gridiron : the Kennedy administration and the desegregation of the Washington Redskins / Thomas G. Smith -- Edwin Bancroft Henderson, African-American athletes, and the writing of sport history / David K. Wiggins -- The greatest : Muhammad Ali's confounding characters / David W. Zang -- The sports spectacle, Michael Jordan, and Nike / Douglas Kellner -- The anatomy of scientific racism : racialist responses to Black athletic achievement / Patrick B. Miller -- Crisis of Black athletes on the eve of the twenty-first century / Harry Edwards.
Call number
  1. Sc F 04-174
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references ([351]-361) and index.
Title
  1. Sport and the color line : Black athletes and race relations in twentieth-century America / edited by Patrick B. Miller and David K. Wiggins.
Imprint
  1. New York : Routledge, 2004.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references ([351]-361) and index.
Added author
  1. Miller, Patrick B.
  2. Wiggins, David K. (David Kenneth), 1951-
ISBN
  1. 0415946107
  2. 0415946115 (PBK.) £19.99
Research call number
  1. Sc F 04-174
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