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Glory Bound: Black Athletes in a White America

Glory Bound: Black Athletes in a White America

Wiggins, David

Paperback

Series: Sports and Entertainment

FictionSports GeneralBlack American Studies

ISBN10: 0815627343
ISBN13: 9780815627340
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: Apr 1 1997
Pages: 324
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.03 Depth: 9.01
Language: English

African American athletes have experienced a tumultuous relationship with mainstream white America. Glory Bound brings together for the first time eleven essays that explore this complex topic. In his writings, well-known sports scholar David K. Wiggins recounts the struggle of black athletes to participate fully in sports while maintaining their own cultural identity and pride.

Wiggins examines the seminal moments that defined and changed the black athlete's role in white America from the nineteenth century to the present: the personal crusade of Wendell Smith to promote black participation in organized baseball, the triumph of Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics and the proposed boycott of the Games, and the response of America's black press and community.

Glory Bound demonstrates how the civil rights movement changed the face of American athletics and society forever. With the genesis of the black power movement in sport, Wiggins notes a significant shift in black--and white--America's attention to the African American athlete.

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