More Than a Game (eBook)

A History of the African American Experience in Sport

David K. Wiggins (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
320 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-5381-1498-8 (ISBN)

Infos

More than a Game discusses how African American men and women sought to participate in sport and what that participation meant to them, the African American community, and the country. It discusses the varied experiences of African Americans in sport and how their participation has both reflected and changed views of race.

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More than a Game discusses how African American men and women sought to participate in sport and what that participation meant to them, the African American community, and the United States more generally. Recognizing the complicated history of race in America and how sport can both divide and bring people together, the book chronicles the ways in which African Americans overcame racial discrimination to achieve success in an institution often described as Americas only true meritocracy. African Americans have often glorified sport, viewing it as one of the few ways they can achieve a better life. In reality, while some African Americans found fame and fortune in sport, most struggled just to participate let alone succeed at the highest levels of sport. Thus, the book has two basic themes. It discusses the varied experiences of African Americans in sport and how their participation has both reflected and changed views of race.

Autor

David K. Wiggins, professor in the School of Recreation, Health, and Tourism and affiliated faculty member in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University, is the author of Glory Bound: Black Athletes in a White America (1997), co-author of The Unlevel Playing Field: A Documentary History of theAfrican American Experience in Sport (2003), and editor or co-editor of Sport and the Color-Line: Black Athletes and Race Relations in Twentieth Century America (2003), Out ofthe Shadows: A Biographical History of African American Athletes (2008), and Separate Games: African American Sport Behind the Walls of Segregation (2016). He is the former editor of the Journal of Sport History and currently president-elect of the North American Society for Sport History.

Inhalt

IntroductionChapter 1: Establishing the Boundaries of Sport: Slavery’s Lasting LegacyChapter 2: Freedom to Participate on an Unlevel Playing FieldChapter 3: Sport Behind the Walls of SegregationChapter 4: Striving to be Full Participants in America’s PastimesChapter 5: Reintegration of Sport and Its AftermathChapter 6: Sport and the Civil Rights MovementChapter 7: Race, Black Athletes, and the Globalization of SportChapter 8: An Altered Athletic LandscapeChronologyBibliographic EssayDocuments

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.10.2018
• Reihe/Serie: The African American Experience Series
• Mitarbeit: Herausgeber (Serie): Nina Mjagkij, Jacqueline M. Moore
• Zusatzinfo: 24 Illustrations including: - 24 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: African American athletes • African American History • African American sports • Althea Gibson • Baseball • black athletes • Blacks in Sport • Cheryl Miller • Colin Kaepernick • Discrimination in Sport • East-West All-Star Game • frank robinson • Hampton University • hank aaron • History of sport • Inequality in Sport • Issac Murphy • Jack Johnson • Jesse Owens • Jim Jeffries • John Carlos • kneeling • lebron james • Muhammad Ali • national anthem • negro league baseball • Paul Robeson • Peter Norman • race and sport • racial injustice • satchel paige • Segregation • Serena Williams • Sonny Liston • Sports History • Tommie Smith • Wilma Rudolph
• ISBN-10: 1-5381-1498-4 / 1538114984
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5381-1498-8 / 9781538114988