Lane Demas

Integrating the Gridiron

Black Civil Rights and American College Football

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Integrating the Gridiron, devoted to exploring the racial politics of college athletics, examines the history of African Americans on predominantly white college football teams from the nineteenth century through today. Lane Demas compares the acceptance and treatment of black student athletes by presenting compelling case studies of those who integrated teams nationwide, and illuminates race relations in a number of regions, including the South, Midwest, West Coast, and Northeast.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 154mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780813549972
• ISBN-10: 0813549973
• Artikelnr.: 32737342

Autorenporträt

LANE DEMAS is an assistant professor of history at Central Michigan University, where he teaches African American and sports history.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Prologue
1. Beyond Jackie Robinson: Racial Integration in American College Football
and New Directions in Sport History
2. "On the Threshold of Broad and Rich Football Pastures": Integrated
College Football at UCLA, 1938-1941
3. "A Fist That Was Very Much Intentional": Postwar Football in the Midwest
and the 1951 Johnny Bright Scandal
4. "We Play Anyone": Deciphering the Racial Politics of Georgia Football
and the 1956 Sugar Bowl Controversy
5. "Beat the Devil Out of BYU": Football and Black Power in the Mountain
West, 1968-1970
Epilogue
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index