With essays by Ron Briley, Michael Ezra, Sarah K. Fields, Billy
Hawkins, Jorge Iber, Kurt Kemper, Michael E. Lomax, Samuel O.
Regalado, Richard Santillan, and Maureen Smith
This anthology explores the intersection of race, ethnicity, and
sports and analyzes the forces that shaped the African American and
Latino sports experience in post-World War II America. Contributors
reveal that sports often reinforced dominant ideas about race and
racial supremacy but that at other times sports became a platform
for addressing racial and social injustices.
The African American sports experience represented the
continuation of the ideas of Black Nationalism--racial solidarity,
black empowerment, and a determination to fight against white
racism. Three of the essayists discuss the protest at the 1968
Olympic Games in Mexico City. In football, baseball, basketball,
boxing, and track and field, African American athletes moved toward
a position of group strength, establishing their own values and
simultaneously rejecting the cultural norms of whites. Among
Latinos, athletic achievement inspired community celebrations and
became a way to express pride in ethnic and religious heritages as
well as a diversion from the work week. Sports was a means by which
leadership and survival tactics were developed and used in the
political arena and in the fight for justice.
Michael E. Lomax is associate professor of health and sport
studies at the University of Iowa and the author of "Black Baseball
Entrepreneurs, 1860-1901: Operating by Any Means Necessary."
Kenneth L. Shropshire is David W. Hauck Professor at the Wharton
School of the University of Pennsylvania and director of the
school's Sports Business initiative.
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