Sport and the Color Line: Black Athletes and Race Relations in Twentieth-century AmericaPatrick B. Miller, David Kenneth 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, drawing together articles by many of the leading figures in Sport Studies to address the African American experience and the history of race relations. |
Contents
BLACK ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE NATIONAL PASTIME | 25 |
YEAR OF THE COMET | 45 |
A GENERAL UNDERSTANDING | 63 |
WE WERE LADIES WE JUST PLAYED LIKE BOYS | 83 |
A SPECIAL TYPE OF DISCIPLINE | 101 |
THE ORDEAL OF DESEGREGATION | 123 |
END JIM CROW IN SPORTS | 147 |
JACKIE ROBINSON | 167 |
JIM CROW IN THE GYMNASIUM | 233 |
CIVIL RIGHTS ON THE GRIDIRON | 251 |
IMAGES OF THE BLACK ATHLETE | 269 |
THE GREATEST | 289 |
THE SPORTS SPECTACLE MICHAEL JORDAN AND NIKE | 305 |
THE ANATOMY OF SCIENTIFIC RACISM | 327 |
CRISIS OF BLACK ATHLETES AT THE OUTSET | 345 |
Contributors | 363 |