Ebook: Separate games African American sport behind the walls of segregation
Author: Swanson Ryan A., Wiggins David Kenneth
- Tags: Discrimination in sports, Discrimination in sports--United States--History--20th century, frican American athletes--History--20th century, History, Discrimination in sports -- United States -- History -- 20th century, frican American athletes -- History -- 20th century, United States
- Series: Sport culture & society (University of Arkansas Press)
- Year: 2016
- Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
- City: United States
- Language: English
- epub
Winner of the 2017 NASSH Book Award for best edited collection.
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,...