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Separate Games: African American Sport Behind the Walls of Segregation

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Separate Games: African American Sport Behind the Walls of Segregation - Wiggins, David K (Editor), and Swanson, Ryan (Editor)
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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 ...

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Separate Games: African American Sport Behind the Walls of Segregation 2020, University of Arkansas Press

ISBN-13: 9781682261224

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Separate Games: African American Sport Behind the Walls of Segregation 2016, University of Arkansas Press

ISBN-13: 9781682260173

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