The Culture of Sports in the Harlem Renaissance

Daniel Anderson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

220 Seiten

2017
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-6518-4 (ISBN)

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During the African American cultural resurgence of the 1920s and 1930s, professional athletes shared the spotlight with artists and intellectuals. Although the black intelligentsia largely dismissed the popularity of sports, the press celebrated athletics as a means to participate in the debates of the day.

During the African American cultural resurgence of the 1920s and 1930s, professional athletes shared the spotlight with artists and intellectuals. Negro League baseball teams played in New York City's major-league stadiums and basketball clubs shared the bill with jazz bands at late night casinos. Yet sports rarely appear in the literature on the Harlem Renaissance.

Although the black intelligentsia largely dismissed the popularity of sports, the press celebrated athletics as a means to participate in the debates of the day. A few prominent writers, such as Claude McKay and James Weldon Johnson, used sports in distinctive ways to communicate their vision of the Renaissance. Meanwhile, the writers of the Harlem press promoted sports with community consciousness, insightful analysis and a playful love of language, and argued for their importance in the fight for racial equality.

Daniel Anderson is an assistant professor of English and the director of American Studies at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction: Examining the Harlem Renaissance

delete deleteThrough the Prism of Sports

Part I: Literature and the Renaissance Intelligentsia

1. The “Discipline of Work and Play”: Athletics, Education and the Harlem Intelligentsia’s Concept of Culture

2. “Minds of Fleetful Thoughts”: Negro League Baseball, Intellectualism and the Black Bourgeoisie

3. Escaping the Iron Cage: Sports, Art and Performance in Harlem’s “Black Bohemia”

4. The “Lost Arts”: Baseball and Boxing in the Historiography of James Weldon Johnson

Part II: Sportswriting and the Harlem Press

5. “Jazz Journalism”: Sportswriting and Popular Culture in the Black Press

6. “A Course in the Curriculum of the Institution”: Sports and Politics in the Harlem Press

7. “Race First” in the Sports Section: Romeo Dougherty and Harlem’s Caribbean Circle

8. The Dean’s Demise: The Sudden Fall and Long Disappearance of Romeo Dougherty

Epilogue: Arna Bontemps, Sterling Brown and the End of an Era

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.03.2017
Zusatzinfo	notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	286 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4766-6518-4 / 1476665184
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-6518-4 / 9781476665184
Zustand	Neuware