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BL
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964216
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b718586
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Sport and the color line : : black athletes and race relations in twentieth-century America /\ edited by Patrick B. Miller, and David K. Wiggins.
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| Publication Statement
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New York ;London :: Routledge,, 2004.
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1 online resource (xii, 382 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0203497457
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: 0415946107
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: 0415946115
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: 9780203497456
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: 9780415946100
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: 9780415946117
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: 9781135941178
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: 9781280053177
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: 9786610053179
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0415946107
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0415946115
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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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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African American athletes-- History-- 20th century.
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Discrimination in sports-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
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Racism in sports-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
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African American athletes.
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Discrimination in sports.
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GAMES-- Gambling-- Sports.
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Race relations.
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Racism in sports.
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SPORTS RECREATION-- Business Aspects.
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SPORTS RECREATION-- Essays.
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SPORTS RECREATION-- History.
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SPORTS RECREATION-- Reference.
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TRAVEL-- Special Interest-- Sports.
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United States, Race relations, History, 20th century.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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796/.089/96073
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| LC Classification
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GV706.32.S73 2004eb
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76.11bcl
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| Added Entry
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Miller, Patrick B.
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Wiggins, David Kenneth,1951-
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