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| Introduction |
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I SPORT AND COMMUNITY IN THE ERA OF JIM CROW |
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Sport and Black Pittsburgh, 1900--1930 |
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Black Entrepreneurship in the National Pastime |
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The Rise of Semiprofessional Baseball in Black Chicago, 1890--1915 |
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25 | (20) |
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Jack Johnson versus Jim Jeffries, July 4, 1910 |
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45 | (18) |
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``A General Understanding'' |
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Organized Baseball and Black Professional Baseball, 1900--1930 |
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63 | (20) |
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``We Were Ladies, We Just Played Like Boys'' |
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African-American Womanhood and Competitive Basketball at Bennett College, 1928--1942 |
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83 | (18) |
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A Special Type of Discipline |
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Manhood and Community in African-American Institutions, 1923--1957 |
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101 | (26) |
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II THE ORDEAL OF DESEGREGATION |
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Joe Louis: American Folk Hero |
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127 | (144) |
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``End Jim Crow in Sports'' |
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The Leonard Bates Controversy and Protest at New York University, 1940--1941 |
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147 | (20) |
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``A Lone Negro'' in Major League Baseball |
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167 | (24) |
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The Political Meaning of High School Basketball in Indianapolis |
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191 | (20) |
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Black Women in Track and Field |
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211 | (22) |
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Jim Crow in the Gymnasium |
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The Integration of College Basketball in the American South |
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233 | (18) |
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Civil Rights on the Gridiron |
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The Kennedy Administration and the Desegregation of the Washington Redskins |
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251 | (20) |
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III IMAGES OF THE BLACK ATHLETE AND THE RACIAL POLITICS OF SPORT |
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Edwin Bancroft Henderson, African-American Athletes, and the Writing of Sport History |
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271 | (34) |
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Muhammad Ali's Confounding Character |
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289 | (16) |
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The Sports Spectacle, Michael Jordan, and Nike |
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305 | (40) |
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The Anatomy of Scientific Racism |
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Racialist Responses to Black Athletic Achievement |
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327 | (18) |
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Crisis of Black Athletes at the Outset of the Twenty-First Century |
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345 | (6) |
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| Further Reading |
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| Contributors |
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363 | (4) |
| Permissions Acknowledgments |
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367 | (2) |
| Index |
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