More Than a Game

David K. Wiggins, professor in the School of Recreation, Health, and Tourism and affiliated faculty member in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University, is the author of Glory Bound: Black Athletes in a White America (1997), co-author of The Unlevel Playing Field: A Documentary History of the African American Experience in Sport (2003), and editor or co-editor of Sport and the Color-Line: Black Athletes and Race Relations in Twentieth Century America (2003), Out of the Shadows: A Biographical History of African American Athletes (2008), and Separate Games: African American Sport Behind the Walls of Segregation (2016). He is the former editor of the Journal of Sport History and currently president-elect of the North American Society for Sport History.

Introduction

Chapter 1: Establishing the Boundaries of Sport: Slavery’s Lasting Legacy
Chapter 2: Freedom to Participate on an Unlevel Playing Field
Chapter 3: Sport Behind the Walls of Segregation
Chapter 4: Striving to be Full Participants in America’s Pastimes
Chapter 5: Reintegration of Sport and Its Aftermath
Chapter 6: Sport and the Civil Rights Movement
Chapter 7: Race, Black Athletes, and the Globalization of Sport
Chapter 8: An Altered Athletic Landscape

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