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Author Wiggins, David Kenneth, 1951- author.

Title More than a game : a history of the African American experience in sport / David K. Wiggins.

Publication Info. Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource.
text file
Series The African American experience
African-American experience.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Establishing the boundaries of sport : slavery's lasting legacy -- Freedom to participate on an unlevel playing field -- Sport behind the walls of segregation -- Striving to be full participants in Americas pastimes -- Reintegration of sport and its aftermath -- Sport and the civil rights movement -- Race, Black athletes, and the globalization of sport -- An altered athletic landscape.
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject African Americans -- Sports -- History.
African Americans.
Sports.
History.
African American athletes -- History.
African American athletes.
Discrimination in sports -- United States -- History.
Discrimination in sports.
United States.
African American athletes -- Social conditions.
GAMES -- Gambling -- Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Business Aspects.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Essays.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- History.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Reference.
African American athletes -- Social conditions.
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Sports.
Genre/Form History.
Other Form: Print version: Wiggins, David Kenneth, 1951- More than a game. Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2018] 9781442248960 (DLC) 2018010359
ISBN 9781538114988 (electronic book)
1538114984 (electronic book)
9781442248960 (hardcover alkaline paper)
9781442248984 (electronic)

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