Integrating the Gridiron: Black Civil Rights and American College Football

ISBN-13: 9780813549972 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 194 str.

Lane Demas

Opis

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.