Jump for joy : jazz, basketball, and Black culture in 1930s America / Gena Caponi-Tabery.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Caponi-Tabery, Gena (Author)
Language:English
Language and/or Writing System:
English.
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2008.
Subjects:
African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Jazz > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Sports > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Social change > United States > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Politics and government > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
African Americans > History > 1877-1964.
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
African Americans.
African Americans > Civil rights.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
African Americans > Politics and government.
Jazz > Social aspects.
Race relations.
Social change.
Sports > Social aspects.
United States.
Sport.
Ethnische Beziehungen.
USA.
Schwarze.
1877-1999
Electronic books.
History.
Genre:
Electronic books.
History.
Online Access:
Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (JSTOR)
Physical Description:1 online resource (xx, 260 pages) : illustrations
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Sneakers and tuxes
  • Up, up and away
  • The 1936 Olympics
  • The Lindy Hop takes to the air
  • The joint is jumping
  • "That's not basketball": fast breaks, jump shots and slam dunks
  • The Brown Bomber: Joe Louis
  • Racial uplift and cultural permission
  • Jump Jim Crow
  • Upward mobility: Pullman porters, A. Philip Randolph, and political change
  • Jump for joy!
  • Afterword: jumping as play: an aesthetic and theoretical perspective.