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Sport often mirrored the racial climate of the time, but it also informed and encouraged equality on and off the field. In Boston, the Black athletic body historically represented a challenge to the city’s liberal image. Boston's Black Athletes: Identity, Performance, and Activism interprets Boston’s contested racial history through the diverse experiences of the city’s African American sports figures who directed their talent toward the struggle for social justice. Editors Robert Cvornyek and Douglas Stark and the contributors explore a variety of representative athletes, such as Kittie Knox, Louise Stokes, and Medina Dixon, that negotiated Boston’s racial boundaries at sequential moments during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to demonstrate Boston’s long and troubled racial history. The contributors’ biographical sketches are grounded in stories that have remained memorable within Boston’s Black neighborhoods. In recounting the struggles and triumphs of these individuals, this book amplifies their stories and reminds readers that Boston’s Black sports fans found a historic consistency in their athletes to shape racial identity and cultural expression.

Table of Contents:
Foreword: Representation Matters by Chante Bonds Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Frenchy A. Johnson: The Life and Times of America’s First Black Sports Star by Edward H. Jones Chapter 2: Black Brahmin Birdies: Golf and the Life of George Franklin Grant (1946-1910) by Lane Demas Chapter 3: Kittie Knox, Boston Cyclist in the 1890s: The War Between Exclusion and Inclusion by Lorenz J. Finison Chapter 4: “Under Wraps”: The Life and Legacy of Sam Langford by Andrew Smith Chapter 5: Major Marshall Taylor: The Worcester Whirlwind by Lorenz J. Finison and Lynne Tolman Chapter 6: Louisa Mae Stokes Fraser: Overlooked Legend by Leslie Heaphy Chapter 7: Lou Montgomery: Tackling Jim Crow by Susan A. Michalczyk Chapter 8: Constructing Legends: Pumpsie Green, Race, and the Boston Red Sox by Robert E. Weir Chapter 9: A Seasoned Rookie: Veteran Sam Jethroe Joins the Boston Braves by Stephanie Liscio Chapter 10: Staying East of the Mississippi: Reengaging with Rodeo’s Diverse History and the New England Connection by Tracey Owens Patton Chapter 11: Boom Boom Barbosa to Jair: Boston's Minor-League, Major-League Soccer and Black Identity by Steven Apostolov Chapter 12: Fighting for Recognition: The Almost Legendary Career of Medina Dixon by Donna L. Halper Afterword: (Re)centering Boston Sport History: A Biographical Glimpse of Seven African-American Female Athletes Who Are Shaping Boston Sport by Eileen Narcotta-Welp About the Editors and Contributors

About the Author :
Robert Cvornyek is professor emeritus of history at Rhode Island College. Douglas Stark is sports museum consultant in Barrington, Rhode Island.

Review :
The volume is notable for essays covering athletes in lesser-studied sports, such as cycling, golf, and crew, along with baseball, football, track, and boxing. All of the essays are well-researched and well-cited, and each contains a bibliography that will be helpful for scholars seeking to expand their knowledge of Black sports stars in general and those in Boston in particular. Boston's Black Athletes is essential reading for those interested in gaining insight into the role of race and sport in one of America's most historically important cities. Through highly detailed, compelling, and thoroughly researched stories on individual Black athletes since the era of Reconstruction, the complex nature of sport in segregated and often racially volatile Boston is fully uncovered and clearly delineated. Boston’s Black Athletes: Identity, Performance, and Activism is a historically rich text that excavates experiences, achievements, and impacts of Black sportspersons connected to Boston and the greater New England region. A unique and appealing aspect of the text is the coverage of Black sportspersons’ contributions in a wide range of sports including basketball, hockey, football, rodeo, track and field, soccer, golf, rowing, boxing, and cycling. The analysis of local, regional, national, and international resonance of Black sportspersons is insightful and inspiring. The collection of contributors from diverse backgrounds and the intentional focus on both Black men and women across a range of sports is laudable and signifies a notable shift in sport historiographic research. This historiographic contribution debunks myths that erase Black athletic feats from the records and advances our collective understanding of the legacy of social progress has deep roots in Boston and throughout Massachusetts. This legacy has and will continue to resonate from the local level to the global level.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781666909043
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 310
  • Series Title: Sport, Identity, and Culture
  • Sub Title: Identity, Performance, and Activism
  • Width: 158 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1666909041
  • Publisher Date: 17 Jul 2024
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Weight: 567 gr


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