Sport and the color line : black athletes and race relations in twentieth-century America /
The essays presented here examine the complexity of black American sports culture, from the organization of semi-pro baseball and athletic programs at historically black colleges and universities, to the careers of individual stars such as Jack
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Table of Contents:
- Sport and Black Pittsburgh, 1900-1930 / Rob Ruck
- Black entrepreneurship in the national pastime : the rise of semiprofessional baseball in Black Chicago, 1890-1915 / 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 : American folk hero / 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 : "a lone Negro" in major league baseball / 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 desegration 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 character / 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 at the outset of the twenty-first century / Harry Edwards.