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  • Ball in My Hands

    Essays on Black Athletes, Race, and American Culture

    de David K. Wiggins ...
    Series series Sport & Popular Culture
    When David K. Wiggins released his first anthology of previously published essays on race and sport in 1997, African American athletes were receiving more popular interest and scholarly attention. The growth of sport history as an academic discipline, combined with an increased interest in Black life and history, had led to the publication of numerous biographies of African American athletes, ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Black Mercuries

    African American Athletes, Race, and the Modern Olympic Games

    de Kevin B. Witherspoon, Mark Dyreson, David K. Wiggins ...
    “An essential source on African American athletes and Olympic history.”-Booklist, Starred Review, and a Booklist Top 10 Sports Book of 2023The first book to fully chronicle the struggles and triumphs of African American athletes in the Modern Olympic summer games.In the modern Olympic Games, from 1896 through the present, African American athletes have sought to honor themselves, their race, and ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • More Than a Game

    A History of the African American Experience in Sport

    de David K. Wiggins ...
    Series series The African American Experience Series
    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 United States more generally. Recognizing the complicated history of race in America and how sport can both divide and bring people together, the book chronicles the ways in which African Americans overcame racial ... Leer más

    $37.99 USD

  • Sport and the Color Line

    Black Athletes and Race Relations in Twentieth Century America

    Edición de Patrick B. Miller, David K. Wiggins ...
    The year 2003 marks the one-hundredth anniversary of W.E.B. Du Bois' "Souls of Black Folk," in which he declared that "the color line" would be the problem of the twentieth century. Half a century later, Jackie Robinson would display his remarkable athletic skills in "baseball's great experiment." Now, "Sport and the Color Line" takes a look at the last century through the lens of sports and race, ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

  • African Americans in Sports

    de David K. Wiggins ...
    This two-volume set features 400 articles on African-Americans in sports, including biographical entries as well as entries on events, tournaments, leagues, clubs, films, and associations. The entries cover all professional, amateur, and college sports such as baseball, tennis, and golf. ... Leer más

    $239.99 USD

  • Separate Games

    African American Sport behind the Walls of Segregation

    Edición de David K. Wiggins, Ryan Swanson ...
    Series series Sport, Culture, and Society
    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 ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • LA Sports

    Play, Games, and Community in the City of Angels

    Edición de Wayne Wilson, David K. Wiggins ...
    Series series Sport, Culture, and Society
    LA Sports brings together sixteen essays covering various aspects of the development and changing nature of sport in one of America’s most fascinating and famous cities. The writers cover a range of topics, including the history of car racing and ice skating, the development of sport venues, the power of the Mexican fan base in American soccer leagues, the intersecting life stories of Jackie and ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • The Routledge History of American Sport

    Edición de Linda J. Borish, David K. Wiggins, Gerald R. Gems ...
    Series series Routledge Histories
    The Routledge History of American Sport provides the first comprehensive overview of historical research in American sport from the early Colonial period to the present day. Considering sport through innovative themes and topics such as the business of sport, material culture and sport, the political uses of sport, and gender and sport, this text offers an interdisciplinary analysis of American ... Leer más

    $72.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Sport, Race and Ethnicity

    Edición de John Nauright, David K Wiggins ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Few issues have engaged sports scholars more than those of race and ethnicity. Today, globalization and migration mean all major sports leagues include players from around the globe, bringing into play a complex mix of racial, ethnic, cultural, political and geographical factors. These complexities have been examined from many angles by historians, sociologists, anthropologists and scientists. ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • DC Sports

    The Nation's Capital at Play

    Edición de Chris Elzey, David K. Wiggins ...
    Series series Sport, Culture, and Society
    Washington, DC, is best known for its politics and monuments, but sport has always been an integral part of the city, and Washingtonians are among the country’s most avid sports fans. DC Sports gathers seventeen essays examining the history of sport in the nation’s capital, from turn-of-the-century venues such as the White Lot, Griffith Stadium, and DC Memorial Stadium to Howard-Lincoln ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Beyond C. L. R. James

    Shifting Boundaries of Race and Ethnicity in Sports

    Edición de John Nauright, Alan G. Gobley, David K. Wiggins ...
    Series series Sports in modern america
    Beyond C. L. R. James brings together essays analyzing the intercon¬nections among race, ethnicity, and sport. Published in memory of C. L. R. James, the revolutionary sociologist and writer from Trinidad who penned the famous autobiographical account of cricket titled Beyond a Boundary, this collection of essays, many of which originated at the 2010 conference on race and ethnicity in sport at ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Sport and Revolutionaries

    Reclaiming the Historical Role of Sport in Social and Political Activism

    Edición de John Nauright, David K Wiggins ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
    This collection examines the role of sport in the lives of key revolutionary thinkers and leftist activists. In contrast to those who take a more romantic view of sport and believe in its apolitical nature, the eight essays help make clear how sport has served as a site for political activism and the revolutionary thought and practices of such individuals as Henry Mayers Hyndman, Vladimer Ilyich ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD