Separate games : African American sport behind the walls of segregation / edited by David K. Wiggins and Ryan A. Swanson.

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Wiggins, David K. [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
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Fayetteville : The University of Arkansas Press, 2016.
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1 online resource (289 pages)

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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.
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Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 05, 2016).
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  • 9781610756006 (electronic book)
  • 1610756002 (electronic book)
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