Separate Games: African American Sport Behind the Walls of Segregation

Separate Games: African American Sport Behind the Walls of Segregation
ISBN-10
1682260178
ISBN-13
9781682260173
Category
History
Pages
289
Language
English
Published
2016-11-01
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Authors
David K. Wiggins, Ryan Swanson

Description

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.

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