Ethnicity And Sport In North American History And Culture

By David K. Wiggins, George Eisen, George Eisen And David K. Wiggins

Early European Attitudes Toward Native American Sports And Pastimes / George Eisen -- Forty-eighters And The Rise Of The Turnverein Movement In America / Robert Knight Barney -- A Home In The South...

The Unlevel Playing Field: A Documentary History Of The African American Experience In Sport

By David K. Wiggins, David Kenneth Wiggins, Patrick B. Miller, David K. Wiggins, Patrick B. Miller, David Kenneth Wiggins

Uses Over 100 Primary Source Documents To Discuss The Relationship Between African American Athletes And The History Of Sports. Antebellum Ordeals: Slavery, Sport, And The Prospects Of Freedom -- T...

The Unlevel Playing Field: A Documentary History Of The African American Experience In Sport

By David K. Wiggins, David Kenneth Wiggins, Patrick B. Miller

The Unlevel Playing Field offers a rich compendium of more than 100 primary sources that chart the intertwining history of African Americans and sport. Introductions and head-notes provided by Davi...

Ethnicity And Sport In North American History And Culture

By David K. Wiggins, George Eisen, George Eisen And David K. Wiggins

The editors use the unique lens of the history of sports to examine ethnic experiences in North America since 1840. Comprised of 12 original essays and an Introduction, it chronicles sport as a soc...

Sport And The Color Line: Black Athletes And Race Relations In Twentieth Century America

By Patrick Miller, David K. Wiggins, Patrick B. Miller, Patrick B. Miller, And David K. Wiggins

The Essays Presented In This Text Examine The Complexity Of Black American Sports Culture, From The Organization Of Semi-pro Baseball And Athletic Programs At Historically Black Colleges And Univer...

Sport And The Color Line: Black Athletes And Race Relations In Twentieth Century America

By Patrick Miller, David K. Wiggins, Patrick B. Miller, Patrick B. Miller, And David K. Wiggins

The year 2003 marks the one-hundredth anniversary of W.E.B. Du Bois' Souls of Black Folk, in which he declared that "the color line" would be the problem of the twentieth century. Half a century la...

Sport In America, Volume II

By David K. Wiggins, David Kenneth Wiggins

Sport in America: From Colonial Leisure to Celebrity Figures and Globalization, Volume II, presents 18 thought-provoking essays focusing on the changes and patterns in American sport...

Historical Dictionary Of African Americans In Sport

By David K. Wiggins

Native Americans In Sports African Americans In Sports

By David K. Wiggins

African Americans In Sports

By David K. Wiggins, David Kenneth Wiggins, Sharpe Reference (Firm)

Wiggins (George Mason University) combines biographical entries on African Americans athletes, coaches, managers, executives, and sports writers with entries on specific sports, organizations, and...