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More Than a Game: A History of the African American Experience in Sport

More Than a Game: A History of the African American Experience in Sport - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:David K. Wiggins, Jacqueline M. Moore (Other), Nina Mjagkij (Other)Series:African American ExperiencePublish date:2018-10-01Pages:312
Language:EnglishPublisher:Rlpg/GalleysISBN-13:9781442248960ISBN-10:1442248963UPC:9781442248960Book Category:History, Sports & RecreationBook Subcategory:African American & Black, History, Social HistorySize:9.10 x 5.90 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.3007Product ID:SCKNTD045R
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 country. It discusses the varied experiences of African Americans in sport and how their participation has both reflected and changed views of race.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Rlpg/GalleysISBN-13:9781442248960ISBN-10:1442248963UPC:9781442248960Book Category:History, Sports & RecreationBook Subcategory:African American & Black, History, Social HistorySize:9.10 x 5.90 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.3007Product ID:SCKNTD045R
David K. Wiggins, professor in the School of Recreation, Health, and Tourism and affiliated faculty member in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University, is the author of Glory Bound: Black Athletes in a White America (1997), co-author of The Unlevel Playing Field: A Documentary History of theAfrican American Experience in Sport (2003), and editor or co-editor of Sport and the Color-Line: Black Athletes and Race Relations in Twentieth Century America (2003), Out ofthe Shadows: A Biographical History of African American Athletes (2008), and Separate Games: African American Sport Behind the Walls of Segregation (2016). He is the former editor of the Journal of Sport History and currently president-elect of the North American Society for Sport History.

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