Race, Culture and Resistance in Black Baseball
by
Sarah L. Trembanis
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
This book is an examination of cultural resistance to segregation in the world of black baseball through an analysis of editorial art, folktales, nicknames, “manhood” and the art of clowning. African Americans worked to dismantle Jim Crow through the creation of a cultural counter-narrative that...