| Description |
xxi, 493 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. |
| Series |
Sport and society
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Antebellum ordeals : slavery, sport, and the prospects of freedom -- Striving for success : African American athletes in the early period of Jim Crow, 1865-1915 -- Parallel institutions : Black sports between the world wars -- Quest for racial reform : affirmation and protest in the sporting realm, 1920s and 1930s -- African American athletes and democratic principles : interpreting the desegregation of sport, 1940s and 1950s -- Sport, the Civil Rights Movement, and Black Power, 1960s and 1970s -- Progress, protest, and alienation in the sports factory, 1970s and beyond -- Black cultural commentary : race relations and sport at the turn of the Twenty-first century |
| Subject |
Discrimination in sports -- United States -- History.
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African American athletes -- History.
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| Added Author |
Wiggins, David Kenneth, 1951-
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Miller, Patrick B.
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| ISBN |
0252028201 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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