Sport and the Color Line Black Athletes and Race Relations in Twentieth Century America

Name: Sport and the Color Line Black Athletes and Race Relations in Twentieth Century America
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ISBN: 9780415946117

ISBN-10: 0415946115

ISBN-13: 9780415946117

Edition: 2004

Authors: Patrick B. Miller, David K. Wiggins

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The year 2003 marks the one-hundredth anniversary of W.E.B. Du Bois' Souls of Black Folk, in which he declared that "the color line" would be the problem of the twentieth century. Half a century later, Jackie Robinson would display his remarkable athletic skills in "baseball's great experiment." Now, Sport and the Color Line takes a look at the last century through the lens of sports and race, drawing together articles by many of the leading figures in Sport Studies to address the African American experience and the history of race relations. The history of African Americans in sport is not simple, and it certainly did not begin in 1947 when Jackie Robinson first donned a Brooklyn Dodgers…

Book details

List price: $59.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 11/24/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.760
Language: English




Sport and Community in the Era of Jim Crow



Sport and Black Pittsburgh, 1900-1930, Rob Ruck



Black Entrepreneurship in the National Pastime: The Rise of Semiprofessional Baseball in Black Chicago, 1890-1915




Year of the Comet: Jack Johnson vs. Jim Jeffries, July 4, 1910




"A General Understanding": Organized Baseball and Black Professional Baseball, 1900-1930




"We Were Ladies, We Just Played Basketball Like Boys": African American Womanhood and Competitive Basketball at Bennett College, 1928-42




A Special Type of Discipline: Manhood and Community in African American Institutions, 1923-57




The Ordeal of Desegregation



Joe Louis: American Folk Hero




"End Jim Crow in Sports": The Leonard Bates Controversy and Protest at New York University, 1940-1941




Jackie Robinson: "A Lone Negro" in Major League Baseball




More Than a Game: The Political Meaning of High School Basketball in Indianapolis




"Cinderellas" of Sport: Black Women in Track and Field




Jim Crow in the Gymnasium: The Integration of College Basketball in the American South




Civil Rights on the Gridiron: The Kennedy Administration and the Desegregation of the Washington Redskins




Images of the Black Athlete and the Racial Politics of Sport



Edwin Bancroft Henderson, African American Athletes, and the Writing of Sport History




The Greatest: Muhammad Ali's Confounding Character




The Sports Spectacle




The Anatomy of Scientific Racism: Racialist Responses to Black Athletic Achievement




Crisis of Black Athletes at the Outset of the 21st Century



Further Reading


Contributors