Ball in My Hands: Essays on Black Athletes, Race, and American Culture: Sports & Popular Culture
Autor David K. Wigginsen Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 mar 2025
Almost thirty years later, Wiggins’s second anthology is a comprehensive collection that examines the complex intersection of race, sport, and American culture, discussing the experiences, challenges, and victories of Black athletes throughout the twentieth century. Featuring eleven previously published essays, Ball in My Hands: Black Athletes, Race, and American Culture weaves storytelling and scholarly discussion together in its exploration of well-known figures like Olympic decathlon champion Milt Campbell, professional tennis icon Arthur Ashe, Olympic sprinter Vince Matthews, civil rights activist Harry Edwards, basketball legend Kobe Bryant, and more. In his final essay, Wiggins reflects on his experiences as a White scholar who has spent his forty-year academic career analyzing and writing about experiences of African Americans in sport and the interconnection among race, sport, and American culture.
With an original introduction and a foreword from Damion L. Thomas, Museum Curator of Sports at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, Ball in My Hands is not simply a collection of biographies on individual athletes or write-ups on athletic institutions—rather, it offers a wide-ranging discussion of the history and meaning of African American sport that will engage not only scholars of African American history and sport history, but educators, sports enthusiasts, and general readers alike.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781621909347
ISBN-10: 1621909344
Pagini: 328
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: University of Tennessee Press
Colecția Univ Tennessee Press
Seria Sports & Popular Culture
ISBN-10: 1621909344
Pagini: 328
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: University of Tennessee Press
Colecția Univ Tennessee Press
Seria Sports & Popular Culture
Notă biografică
DAVID K. WIGGINS is professor emeritus of sport studies at George Mason University. He is the author or editor of eighteen books on sport history.