Sports and the Racial Divide: African American and Latino Experience in an Era of Change - Brossura

 
9781617030451: Sports and the Racial Divide: African American and Latino Experience in an Era of Change
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ISBN 10: 1617030457 ISBN 13: 9781617030451
Casa editrice: University Press of Mississippi, 2008

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With essays by Ron Briley, Michael Ezra, Sarah K. Fields, Billy Hawkins, Jorge Iber, Kurt Kemper, Michael E. Lomax, Samuel O. Regalado, Richard Santillan, and Maureen Smith

This anthology explores the intersection of race, ethnicity, and sports and analyzes the forces that shaped the African American and Latino sports experience in post-World War II America. Contributors reveal that sports often reinforced dominant ideas about race and racial supremacy but that at other times sports became a platform for addressing racial and social injustices.

The African American sports experience represented the continuation of the ideas of Black Nationalism-racial solidarity, black empowerment, and a determination to fight against white racism. Three of the essayists discuss the protest at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City. In football, baseball, basketball, boxing, and track and field, African American athletes moved toward a position of group strength, establishing their own values and simultaneously rejecting the cultural norms of whites. Among Latinos, athletic achievement inspired community celebrations and became a way to express pride in ethnic and religious heritages as well as a diversion from the work week. Sports was a means by which leadership and survival tactics were developed and used in the political arena and in the fight for justice.

Michael E. Lomax is associate professor of health and sport studies at the University of Iowa and the author of Black Baseball Entrepreneurs, 1860-1901: Operating by Any Means Necessary. Kenneth L. Shropshire is David W. Hauck Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and director of the school's Sports Business initiative.

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Michael E. Lomax is associate professor of health and sport studies at the University of Iowa and author of Black Baseball Entrepreneurs, 1860-1901: Operating by Any Means Necessary.

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Essays exploring the complex and evolving status of athletes of color

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Editore
University Press of Mississippi
Data di pubblicazione
2008
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1617030457
ISBN 13 
9781617030451
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
260
Redattore
Lomax Michael
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9781604730142: Sports and the Racial Divide: African American and Latino Experience in an Era of Change

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ISBN 10:  1604730145 ISBN 13:  9781604730142
Casa editrice: Univ Pr of Mississippi, 2008
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