Breaking Barriers (eBook)

A History of Integration in Professional Basketball

Douglas Stark (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
280 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4422-7754-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This book charts the progress of integration in basketball, from the first black professional basketball player in 1902 to the modern game. These crucial steps in the history of basketball are placed within the larger context of American history, making this book an essential addition to the literature on sports and race in America.

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Today, it is nearly impossible to talk about the best basketball players in America without acknowledging the accomplishments of incredibly talented black athletes like Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, and Kobe Bryant. A little more than a century ago, however, the game was completely dominated by white players playing on segregated courts and teams. In Breaking Barriers: A History of Integration in Professional Basketball, Douglas Stark details the major moments that led to the sport opening its doors to black players. He charts the progress of integration from Bucky Lewthe first black professional basketball player in 1902to the modern game played by athletes like Stephen Curry and LeBron James. Although Stark focuses on the official integration of basketball in the late 1940s, the story does not end there. Over the past 60-plus years, black athletes have continued to change the game of basketball in terms of style, social progress, and marketability. Spanning the early 1900s to the present day, no other book features such a comprehensive examination of the key events and figures that led to the integration of professional basketball. In Breaking Barriers, these crucial steps in the history of the sport are placed within the larger context of American history, making this book an essential addition to the literature on sports and race in America.

Autor

Douglas Stark is the museum director at the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island. He is the author of three books about basketball: The SPHAS: The Life and Times of Basketball’s Greatest Jewish Team (2011), Wartime Basketball: The Emergence of a National Sport during World War II (2016), and When Basketball Was Jewish: Voices of Those Who Played the Game (2017).

Inhalt

AcknowledgementsPrologue Chapter 1: Early Black Professional Basketball Chapter 2: The World Professional Basketball Tournament Chapter 3: The National Basketball League Chapter 4: Early Black NBA PioneersChapter 5: The Rise of African American Stars in the NBA Chapter 6: The Shadow of Michael Jordan Bibliography Index About the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.12.2018
• Zusatzinfo: 44 Illustrations including: - 44 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sport ► Ballsport ► Basketball
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: African American History • African American Studies • Basketball • Bill Jones • Bill Russell • black professional basketball • Bucky Lew • Clarence Gaines • Earl Lloyd • elgin baylor • Harlem Globetrotters • Integration • integration in basketball • John McLendon • lebron james • magic johnson • Marques Haynes • Michael Jordan • National Basketball League • NBA • New York Renaissance • Pop Gates • professional basketball • professional basketball tournament • Sports History • Sweetwater Clifton • wilt chamberlain • world basketball tournament
• ISBN-10: 1-4422-7754-8 / 1442277548
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-7754-0 / 9781442277540