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      Ball in My Hands

      David K. Wiggins

      Featuring eleven previously published essays, Wiggins's second anthology is a comprehensive collection that examines the complex intersection of race, sport, and American culture, discussing the experiences, challenges, and victories of…

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      Out of the Shadows: A Biographical History of African American Athletes

      Contains twenty biographies of African American male and female athletes that furnish perspectives on the changing status of these athletes and how these changes mirrored the transformation of sports, American…

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      Sport in America, Volume II: From Colonial Leisure to Celebrity Figures and Globalization

      David K. Wiggins

      Sport in America, Volume II, offers readers 18 fresh essays arranged chronologically from the early American period to the present day to provide a historical context and offer perspective on…

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      African Americans in Sports

      David K. Wiggins

      This two-volume set features 400 articles on African-Americans in sports, including biographical entries as well as entries on events, tournaments, leagues, clubs, films, and associations. The entries cover all professional…

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      Glory Bound: Black Athletes in a White America

      David K. Wiggins

      African-American athletes have had a tumultuous relationship with white America. Glory Bound brings together essays that explore this complex topic. Wiggins recounts the struggle of black athletes to climb their…

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      Game Changers

      Ninth volume in the Double Exposure series draws upon photographs in the NMAAHC's collection to explore the dynamic ways sports influence the social, political, and cultural life of African Americans.

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      Sport and Revolutionaries: Reclaiming the Historical Role of Sport in Social and Political Activism

      Sport and Revolutionaries examines the role that sport has played in political activism and revolutionary movements. The book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the…

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      Ethnicity and Sport in North American History and Culture

      George Eisen,David K. Wiggins

      Comprised of 12 original essays and an Introduction, it chronicles sport as a social institution through which various ethnic and racial groups attempted to find the way to social and…

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      Sport and Revolutionaries: Reclaiming the Historical Role of Sport in Social and Political Activism

      Sport and Revolutionaries examines the role that sport has played in political activism and revolutionary movements. The book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the…

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      Separate Games: African American Sport behind the Walls of Segregation

      The hardening of racial lines during the first half of the twentieth century eliminated almost all African Americans from white organised sports, forcing black athletes to form their own teams…

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      LA Sports: Play, Games, and Community in the City of Angels

      Brings together sixteen essays covering various aspects of the development and changing nature of sport in one of America’s most fascinating and famous cities. The writers cover a range of…

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      Ethnicity and Sport in North American History and Culture

      George Eisen,David K. Wiggins

      Comprised of 12 original essays and an Introduction, it chronicles sport as a social institution through which various ethnic and racial groups attempted to find the way to social and…

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      DC Sports: The Nation’s Capital at Play

      Not distributed; available at Arkansas State Library.

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      Routledge Handbook of Sport, Race and Ethnicity

      Few issues have engaged sport scholars more than that of race and ethnicity. This is the first book to offer a comprehensive survey of the full sweep of approaches to…

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      Routledge Handbook of Sport, Race and Ethnicity

      Few issues have engaged sport scholars more than that of race and ethnicity. This is the first book to offer a comprehensive survey of the full sweep of approaches to…

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      Separate Games: African American Sport behind the Walls of Segregation

      The hardening of racial lines during the first half of the twentieth century eliminated almost all African Americans from white organised sports, forcing black athletes to form their own teams…

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      The Unlevel Playing Field: A Documentary History of the African American Experience in Sport

      David K. Wiggins,Patrick B. Miller

      Charts the intertwining histories of African Americans and sport. This book contains over 100 documents on both pioneering and modern-day athletes, ranging chronologically from a challenge issued by prizefighter Tom…

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      Sport and the Color Line: Black Athletes and Race Relations in Twentieth Century America

      The essays presented here examine the complexity of black American sports culture, from the organization of semi-pro baseball and athletic programs at historically black colleges and universities, to the careers…

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      Sport and the Color Line: Black Athletes and Race Relations in Twentieth Century America

      The essays presented here examine the complexity of black American sports culture, from the organization of semi-pro baseball and athletic programs at historically black colleges and universities, to the careers…

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      The Routledge History of American Sport

      The Routledge History of American Sport provides the first comprehensive overview of historical research in American sport from the early Colonial period to the present day.

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      The Routledge History of American Sport

      The Routledge History of American Sport provides the first comprehensive overview of historical research in American sport from the early Colonial period to the present day.

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      Beyond C. L. R. James: Shifting Boundaries of Race and Ethnicity in Sports

      Lewis Turco

      Brings together essays analysing the interconnections among race, ethnicity, and sport. Published in memory of C. L. R. James, the revolutionary sociologist and writer from Trinidad, this collection of essays…

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      More Than a Game: A History of the African American Experience in Sport

      David K. Wiggins, George Mason University

      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…

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      Black Mercuries: African American Athletes, Race, and the Modern Olympic Games

      David K. Wiggins, George Mason University,Kevin B. Witherspoon,Mark Dyreson

      This book chronicles the struggles and triumphs of African American athletes in the Modern Olympic Games, from 1896 through the 2020 Tokyo Games. It explores the lives and careers of…

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