The set-up men : race, culture and resistance in Black baseball / Sarah L. Trembanis
- Author:
- Trembanis, Sarah L.
- Published:
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., [2014]
- Copyright Date:
- ©2014
- Physical Description:
- xi, 225 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Contents:
- "A jim-crow affair" : Negro League baseball -- Sport and the contest over space -- "A man and a gentleman in every respect" : negotiating black manhood and respectability in a segregated sport -- Representing race : black baseball and visual images -- Signifying baseball : tricksters and folklore in black baseball -- Giants and a gentleman : naming and resistance in the Negro Leagues -- Send in the clowns : clowning teams and trickster resistance.
- Summary:
- "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 centered on baseball and the Negro Leagues, that celebrated black achievement, that highlighted the contradictions and fallacies of white supremacy in the first half of the twentieth century."--
- Subject(s):
- Baseball—United States—History
- Negro leagues—History
- African American baseball players
- Discrimination in sports—United States
- Baseball
- Discrimination in sports
- Negro leagues
- Base-ball—États-Unis—Histoire
- Base-ball—Noirs américains—Histoire
- Athlètes noirs américains
- Discrimination dans les sports—États-Unis
- United States
- États-Unis
- Genre(s):
- ISBN:
- 9780786477968 (softcover ; alk. paper)
0786477962 (softcover ; alk. paper) - Collection:
- Ronald A. Smith Sports History Book Collection.
- Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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