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Sports and the Racial Divide
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  • Authored by: Michael Lomax
  • From the Series: University Press of Mississippi Academic Collection
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  • ISBN-10: 1438197829
  • ISBN-13: 978-1-4381-9782-1
  • Status: In Stock
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  • Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
  • Published: 07/01/2020
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  • Reading Level: Grades 9 and up

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 represented the continuation of the ideas of Black Nationalism—racial solidarity, black empowerment, and a determination to fight against white racism. Three of the essayists discuss the protest at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City. In football, baseball, basketball, boxing, and track and field, African American athletes moved toward a position of group strength, establishing their own values and simultaneously rejecting the cultural norms of whites. Among Latinos, athletic achievement inspired community celebrations and became a way to express pride in ethnic and religious heritages as well as a diversion from the work week. Sports were a means by which leadership and survival tactics were developed and used in the political arena and in the fight for justice.

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