TY - BOOK AU - Wiggins,David Kenneth TI - More than a game: a history of the African American experience in sport SN - 9781442248960 AV - GV583 .W544 2018 PY - 2018///] CY - Lanham PB - Rowman & Littlefield KW - African Americans KW - Sports KW - History KW - African American athletes KW - Discrimination in sports KW - United States KW - Social conditions N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-207) and index; Establishing the boundaries of sport : slavery's lasting legacy -- Freedom to participate on an unlevel playing field -- Sport behind the walls of segregation -- Striving to be full participants in Americas pastimes -- Reintegration of sport and its aftermath -- Sport and the civil rights movement -- Race, Black athletes, and the globalization of sport -- An altered athletic landscape N2 - "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 country. It discusses the varied experiences of African Americans in sport and how their participation has both reflected and changed views of race" -- ER -