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The Culture of Sports in the Harlem Renaissance
Contributor(s): Anderson, Daniel (Author)

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 ISBN: 1476665184     ISBN-13: 9781476665184
Publisher: McFarland & Company
OUR PRICE: $31.45  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Sports & Recreation | History
- Sports & Recreation | Baseball - History
- Sports & Recreation | Basketball
Dewey: 306.483
LCCN: 2017005430
Age Level: 18-UP
Grade Level: 13-UP
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.65 lbs) 220 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Chronological Period - 1920's
- Chronological Period - 1930's
- Locality - New York, N.Y.
- Geographic Orientation - New York
- Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region - Northeast U.S.
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
- Demographic Orientation - Urban
Features: Bibliography, Index
Review Citations: Choice 09/01/2017
 
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During the African American cultural resurgence of the 1920s and 1930s, professional athletes shared the spotlight with artists and intellectuals. Negro League baseball teams played in New York City's major-league stadiums and basketball clubs shared the bill with jazz bands at late night casinos. Yet sports rarely appear in the literature on the Harlem Renaissance. Although the black intelligentsia largely dismissed the popularity of sports, the press celebrated athletics as a means to participate in the debates of the day. A few prominent writers, such as Claude McKay and James Weldon Johnson, used sports in distinctive ways to communicate their vision of the Renaissance. Meanwhile, the writers of the Harlem press promoted sports with community consciousness, insightful analysis and a playful love of language, and argued for their importance in the fight for racial equality.
 
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