In the game : race, identity, and sports in the twentieth century / edited by Amy Bass.
| Other author | Bass, Amy. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2005. |
| Description | 273 pages ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents only |
| Supplemental Content | Contributor biographical information |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Subjects |
| Contents | "Richie" Allen, Whitey's ways, and me: a political education in the 1960s / Matthew Frye Jacobson -- In sports the best man wins: how Joe Louis whupped Jim Crow / Theresa E. Runstedtler -- Race and silence in Argentine football / Grant Farred -- Reading and rereading the game: reflections on West Indies cricket / Michael Arthur, Jennifer Scanlon -- Wa a o, wa ba ski na me ska ta!: "Indian" mascots and the pathology of anti-indigenous racism / David Anthony Tyeeme Clark -- Backfield in motion: the transformation of the NFL by black culture / Joel Dinerstein -- The harmonizing nation: Mexico and the 1968 Olympics / Eric Zolov -- Courtside: race and basketball in the works of John Edgar Wideman / Tracie Church Guzzio -- The stepping stone: Larry Holmes, Gerry Cooney, and Rocky / Carlo Rotella. |
| Local note | Little-346878--305131052305S |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2004060108 |
| ISBN | 1403965706 |
| ISBN | 9781403965707 |