Game of privilege an African American history of golf / by Lane Demas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Demas, Lane, author.

Series:

John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.

The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discrimination in sports--United States--History.

Discrimination in sports.

Golf--United States--History.

Golf.

Golf--Social aspects--United States.

African Americans--Civil rights--History.

African Americans.

African American golfers--History.

African American golfers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (363 pages) : illustrations.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]

Summary:

This groundbreaking history of African Americans and golf explores the role of race, class, and public space in golf course development, the stories of individual black golfers during the age of segregation, the legal battle to integrate public golf courses, and the little-known history of the United Golfers Association (UGA) - a black golf tour that operated from 1925 to 1975.

Contents:

Real democracy is found on the links : African Americans and the origins of golf in the United States

One hears of Negro country clubs : golfing the Great Migration and Harlem Renaissance

Our masters : the development of the United Golfers Association

I will take your own golf stick and wham the world : golf and the postwar civil rights movement

Guns in their golf bags : Black Power on the links

Thai people don't get hate mail : race and golf in the age of Tiger Woods.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9798890850720

9781469634234

1469634236

9781469634241

1469634244

OCLC:

1001251240