Boston’s Black Athletes -

Boston’s Black Athletes

Identity, Performance, and Activism
Buch | Hardcover
310 Seiten
2024
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-0904-3 (ISBN)
114,70 inkl. MwSt
Boston's Black Athletes interprets Boston’s contested racial history through the diverse experiences of the city’s African American sports figures. The contributors explore a variety of representative athletes that negotiated Boston’s racial boundaries at sequential moments in time to demonstrate Boston’s long and troubled racial history.
Sport often mirrored the racial climate of the time, but it also informed and encouraged equality on and off the field. In Boston, the Black athletic body historically represented a challenge to the city’s liberal image. Boston's Black Athletes: Identity, Performance, and Activism interprets Boston’s contested racial history through the diverse experiences of the city’s African American sports figures who directed their talent toward the struggle for social justice. Editors Robert Cvornyek and Douglas Stark and the contributors explore a variety of representative athletes, such as Kittie Knox, Louise Stokes, and Medina Dixon, that negotiated Boston’s racial boundaries at sequential moments during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to demonstrate Boston’s long and troubled racial history. The contributors’ biographical sketches are grounded in stories that have remained memorable within Boston’s Black neighborhoods. In recounting the struggles and triumphs of these individuals, this book amplifies their stories and reminds readers that Boston’s Black sports fans found a historic consistency in their athletes to shape racial identity and cultural expression.

Robert Cvornyek is professor emeritus of history at Rhode Island College. Douglas Stark is principal consultant in Barrington, Rhode Island.

Foreword: Representation Matters by Chante Bonds

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Frenchy A. Johnson: The Life and Times of America’s First Black Sports Star by Edward H. Jones

Chapter 2: Black Brahmin Birdies: Golf and the Life of George Franklin Grant (1946-1910) by Lane Demas

Chapter 3: Kittie Knox, Boston Cyclist in the 1890s: The War Between Exclusion and Inclusion by Lorenz J. Finison

Chapter 4: “Under Wraps”: The Life and Legacy of Sam Langford by Andrew Smith

Chapter 5: Major Marshall Taylor: The Worcester Whirlwind by Lorenz J. Finison and Lynne Tolman

Chapter 6: Louisa Mae Stokes Fraser: Overlooked Legend by Leslie Heaphy

Chapter 7: Lou Montgomery: Tackling Jim Crow by Susan A. Michalczyk

Chapter 8: Constructing Legends: Pumpsie Green, Race, and the Boston Red Sox by Robert E. Weir

Chapter 9: A Seasoned Rookie: Veteran Sam Jethroe Joins the Boston Braves by Stephanie Liscio

Chapter 10: Staying East of the Mississippi: Reengaging with Rodeo’s Diverse History and the New England Connection by Tracey Owens Patton

Chapter 11: Boom Boom Barbosa to Jair: Boston's Minor-League, Major-League Soccer and Black Identity by Steven Apostolov

Chapter 12: Fighting for Recognition: The Almost Legendary Career of Medina Dixon by Donna L. Halper

Afterword: (Re)centering Boston Sport History: A Biographical Glimpse of Seven African-American Female Athletes Who Are Shaping Boston Sport by Eileen Narcotta-Welp

About the Editors and Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Sport, Identity, and Culture
Co-Autor Steven Apostolov, Lane Demas, Lorenz J. Finison
Sprache englisch
Maße 158 x 235 mm
Gewicht 567 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
Weitere Fachgebiete Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-6669-0904-1 / 1666909041
ISBN-13 978-1-6669-0904-3 / 9781666909043
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