Sports and the racial divide : African American and Latino experience in an era of change / edited by Michael E. Lomax.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lomax, Michael E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discrimination in sports--United States--History.

Discrimination in sports.

African American athletes--History.

African American athletes.

Mexican American athletes--History.

Mexican American athletes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 represente

Contents:

Introduction: The African American and Latino athlete in Post-World War II America : a historical review / Michael E. Lomax

New Orleans, new football league, and new attitudes : the American Football League all-star game boycott, January 1965 / Maureen Smith

Battles for control over Muhammad Ali's career and image / Michael Ezra

Bedazzle them with brilliance, bamboozle them with bull : Harry Edwards, black power, and the revolt of the black athlete revisited / Michael E. Lomax

The Black Panther party and the revolt of the black athlete : sport and revolutionary consciousness / Ron Briley

Dark spirits : the emergence of cultural nationalism on the sidelines and on campus / Kurt Edward Kemper

Title IX and African American female athletes / Sarah K. Fields

Mexican baseball teams in the Midwest, 1916-1965 : the politics of cultural survival and civil rights / Richard Santillan

Roberto Clemente : images, identity, and legacy / Samuel O. Regalado

The pigskin pulpito : a brief overview of the experiences of Mexican American high school football coaches in Texas / Jorge Iber

Conclusion: A contested terrain : the sporting experiences of African American and Latino athletes in Post-World War II America / Billy Hawkins.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-94093-7

9786612940934

1-61703-046-5

OCLC:

690211817