Table of Contents
Introduction
I. Sport and Community in the Era of Jim Crow
1. Sport and Black Pittsburgh, 1900-1930, Rob Ruck
2. Black Entrepreneurship in the National Pastime: The Rise of Semiprofessional Baseball in Black Chicago, 1890-1915, Michael Lomax
3. Year of the Comet: Jack Johnson vs. Jim Jeffries, July 4, 1910, Randy Roberts
4. "A General Understanding": Organized Baseball and Black Professional Baseball, 1900-1930, Neil Lanctot
5. "We Were Ladies, We Just Played Basketball Like Boys": African American Womanhood and Competitive Basketball at Bennett College, 1928-42, Rita Liberti
6. A Special Type of Discipline: Manhood and Community in African American Institutions, 1923-57, Pamela Grundy
II. The Ordeal of Desegregation
7. Joe Louis: American Folk Hero, William H. Wiggins
8. "End Jim Crow in Sports": The Leonard Bates Controversy and Protest at New York University, 1940-1941, Donald Spivey
9. Jackie Robinson: "A Lone Negro" in Major League Baseball, Jules Tygiel
10. More Than a Game: The Political Meaning of High School Basketball in Indianapolis, Richard B. Pierce
11. "Cinderellas" of Sport: Black Women in Track and Field, Susan Cahn
12. Jim Crow in the Gymnasium: The Integration of College Basketball in the American South, Charles H. Martin
13. Civil Rights on the Gridiron: The Kennedy Administration and the Desegregation of the Washington Redskins, Thomas G. Smith
III. Images of the Black Athlete and the Racial Politics of Sport
14. Edwin Bancroft Henderson, African American Athletes, and the Writing of Sport History, David K. Wiggin
15. The Greatest: Muhammad Ali's Confounding Character, David W. Zang
16. The Sports Spectacle, MichaelJordan, and Nike: The Paradoxes of Corporate Sport, Douglas Kellner
17. The Anatomy of Scientific Racism: Racialist Responses to Black Athletic Achievement, Patrick B. Miller
18. Crisis of Black Athletes at the Outset of the 21st Century, Harry Edwards
Further Reading
Contributors