-Most of the contributions strongly project the authors' perceptions of the role of race on their subjects, and essays should elicit lively discussions in the classroom.-
--CHOICE

Frederick Douglass liked to say of West Indian boxer Peter Jackson that -Peter is doing a great deal with his fists to solve the Negro question.- His comment reflects the possibilities for social transformation that he saw in the emerging modern sports culture. Indeed, as the twentieth century developed, sports have become an important cultural terrain over which various racial groups have...

-Most of the contributions strongly project the authors' perceptions of the role of race on their subjects, and essays should elicit lively discussions in the classroom.-
--CHOICE

Frederick Douglass liked to say of West Indian boxer Peter Jackson that -Peter is doing a great deal with his fists to solve the Negro question.- His comment reflects the possibilities for social transformation that he saw in the emerging modern sports culture. Indeed, as the twentieth century developed, sports have become an important cultural terrain over which various racial groups have...