| Description |
xiv, 232 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Note |
Revised versions of papers presented at the Porter L. Fortune, Jr. History Symposium, held Sept. 25-27, 2002. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Fritz Pollard and integration in early professional football / John M. Carroll -- Before Magic and Keyshawn : Sugar Ray Robinson, the businessman / Kenneth L. Shropshire and Scott Brooks -- Fostering community consciousness : the role of women's basketball at Black colleges and universities, 1900-1950 / Rita Liberti -- Major league baseball's separate-and-unequal doctrine : the African American and Latino experience in spring training, 1946-1961 / Michael E. Lomax -- American imperial crusade : race, religion, and sport in the Pacific / Gerald R. Gems -- African American student-athlete / Earl Smith -- Muscular assimilationism : sport and the paradoxes of racial reform / Patrick B. Miller -- Uneven view of African American ballers / C. Keith Harrison and Alicia Valdez. |
| Subject |
Racism in sports -- United States -- History.
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African American athletes -- History.
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| Added Author |
Brooks, Scott.
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Ross, Charles Kenyatta, 1964-
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Porter L. Fortune, Jr. History Symposium (27th : 2002)
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| ISBN |
1578068975 (pbk.) |
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9781578068975 (pbk.) |
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1578066573 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9781578066575 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
9781578068975 |
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YDXCP 2412652 |
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