Separate Games - African American Sport behind the Walls of Segregation (Paperback)

Winner of the 2017 NASSH Book Award for best edited collection. The hardening of racial lines during the first half of the twentieth century eliminated almost all African Americans from white organized sports, forcing black athletes to form their own teams, organizations, and events. This separate sporting culture, explored in the twelve essays included here, comprised much more than athletic competition; these 'separate games' provided examples of black enterprise and black self-help and showed the importance of agency and the quest for racial uplift in a country fraught with racialist thinking and discrimination.The significance of this sporting culture is vividly showcased in the stories of the Cuban Giants baseball team, basketball's New York Renaissance Five, the Tennessee State Tigerbelles track-and-field team, black college football's Turkey Bowl Classic, car racing's Gold and Glory Sweepstakes, Negro League Baseball's East-West All-Star game, and many more. These teams, organizations, and events made up a vibrant national sporting complex that remained in existence until the integration of sports beginning in the late 1940s. Separate Games explores the fascinating ways sports helped bind the black community and illuminate race pride, business acumen, and organizational abilities.

General

Imprint:	University of Arkansas Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Sport, Culture, and Society
Release date:	September 2020
Editors:	David K. Wiggins • Ryan Swanson
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-1-68226-122-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > General Books > History > General Promotions
LSN:	1-68226-122-0
Barcode:	9781682261224

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