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The Culture of Sports in the Harlem Renaissance (Paperback)
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The Culture of Sports in the Harlem Renaissance (Paperback)
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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 remain
conspicuously absent from much of the literature on the popular
culture of 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.
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