Sport and the Color Line: Black Athletes and Race Relations in Twentieth Century America

Book Overview

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 later, Jackie Robinson would display his remarkable athletic skills in "baseball's great experiment." Now, "Sport and the Color Line" takes a look at the last century through the lens of sports and race, drawing together articles by many of the leading...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415946115
• ISBN13: 9780415946117
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 9.9"