The Unlevel Playing Field: A Documentary History Of The African American Experience In Sport - Couverture souple

Wiggins, David K.; Miller, Patrick B.

 
9780252072727: The Unlevel Playing Field: A Documentary History Of The African American Experience In Sport
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ISBN 10 : 0252072723 ISBN 13 : 9780252072727
Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2005

Synopsis

The Unlevel Playing Field offers a rich compendium of more than 100 primary sources that chart the intertwining history of African Americans and sport. Introductions and head-notes provided by David K. Wiggins and Patrick B. Miller place each document in context, shaping an unrivaled narrative.

Readers will find dozens of accounts by Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. DuBois, Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, James Weldon Johnson, Richard Wright, A. S. "Doc" Young, Eldredge Cleaver, Nikki Giovanni, John Edgar Wideman, bell hooks, James Baldwin, Roy Wilkins, Henry Louis Gates, Gerald Early, and many others.

The documents range from discussions of the color line in organized baseball during the Jim Crow era and portraits of turn-of-the-century figures like the champion sprint cyclist Marshall "Major" Taylor and boxer Jack Johnson. Writers also look at modern-day issues like the participation of black athletes in the 1968 Olympics, the place of African American women in sport, and examine pioneering figures like Jackie Robinson, Muhammad Ali, Althea Gibson, Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, and Venus and Serena Williams.

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À propos de l?auteur

David K. Wiggins is Director of the School of Recreation, Health, and Tourism and professor emeritus of history at George Mason University. He is the author of Glory Bound: Black Athletes in a White America. Patrick B. Miller teaches history at Northeastern Illinois University and is the editor of The Sporting World of the Modern South.

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Éditeur
University of Illinois Press
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0252072723
ISBN 13 
9780252072727
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
493
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0252028201 ISBN 13 :  9780252028205
Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2003
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