David K Wiggins: 3 books
Sport in America, Volume II
From Colonial Leisure to Celebrity Figures and Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
Sport in America: From Colonial Leisure to Celebrity Figures and Globalization, Volume II, presents 18 thought-provoking essays focusing on the changes and patterns in American sport during six distinct eras over the past 400 years. The selections are entirely different from those in the first volume,...
by David K. Wiggins
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
This two-volume set features 400 articles on African-Americans in sports, including biographical entries as well as entries on events, tournaments, leagues, clubs, films, and associations. The entries cover all professional, amateur, and college sports such as baseball, tennis, and golf.
More Than a Game
A History of the African American Experience in Sport
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
More than a Game discusses how African American men and women sought to participate in sport and what that participation meant to them, the African American community, and the United States more generally. Recognizing the complicated history of race in America and how sport can both divide and bring...