More than a game : a history of the African American experience in sport / David K. Wiggins.

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"More than a Game discusses how African American men and women sought to participate in sport and what that participation meant to them, the African American community, and the country. It discusses the varied experiences of African Americans in sport and how their participation has both reflected a...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:African-American experience (Rowman and Littlefield, Inc.)
Main Author: Wiggins, David Kenneth, 1951- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2018]
Series:African-American experience (Rowman and Littlefield, Inc.)
Subjects:
African Americans > Sports > History.
African American athletes > History.
Discrimination in sports > United States > History.
African American athletes > Social conditions.
African American athletes.
Discrimination in sports.
United States.
HISTORY / African American.
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local.
SPORTS & RECREATION / History.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:ix, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Establishing the boundaries of sport : slavery's lasting legacy
  • Freedom to participate on an unlevel playing field
  • Sport behind the walls of segregation
  • Striving to be full participants in Americas pastimes
  • Reintegration of sport and its aftermath
  • Sport and the civil rights movement
  • Race, Black athletes, and the globalization of sport
  • An altered athletic landscape.