David K. Wiggins, professor in the School of Recreation, Health, and Tourism and affiliated faculty member in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University, is the author of Glory Bound: Black Athletes in a White America (1997), co-author of The Unlevel Playing Field: A Documentary History of the African American Experience in Sport (2003), and editor or co-editor of Sport and the Color-Line: Black Athletes and Race Relations in Twentieth Century America (2003), Out ofthe Shadows: A Biographical History of African American Athletes (2008), and Separate Games: African American Sport Behind the Walls of Segregation (2016). He is the former editor of the Journal of Sport History and currently president-elect of the North American Society for Sport History.
24 Ebooks por David K. Wiggins
David K. Wiggins: More Than a Game
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 United States more gene …
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€59.06
Wiggins David K. Wiggins & Eisen George Eisen: Ethnicity and Sport in North American History and Culture
The editors use the unique lens of the history of sports to examine ethnic experiences in North America since 1840. Comprised of 12 original essays and an Introduction, it chronicles sport as a socia …
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€40.38
Patrick B. Miller & David K. Wiggins: Sport and the Color Line
The year 2003 marks the one-hundredth anniversary of W.E.B. Du Bois’ "Souls of Black Folk, " in which he declared that "the color line" would be the problem of the twentieth centu …
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€64.19
Patrick B. Miller & David K. Wiggins: Sport and the Color Line
The year 2003 marks the one-hundredth anniversary of W.E.B. Du Bois’ "Souls of Black Folk, " in which he declared that "the color line" would be the problem of the twentieth centu …
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€64.26
David K. Wiggins: African Americans in Sports
This two-volume set features 400 articles on African-Americans in sports, including biographical entries as well as entries on events, tournaments, leagues, clubs, films, and associations. The entrie …
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€211.84
David K. Wiggins: African Americans in Sports
This two-volume set features 400 articles on African-Americans in sports, including biographical entries as well as entries on events, tournaments, leagues, clubs, films, and associations. The entrie …
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€211.89
Linda J. Borish & Gerald R. (North Central College, USA) Gems: The Routledge History of American Sport
The Routledge History of American Sport provides the first comprehensive overview of historical research in American sport from the early Colonial period to the present day. Considering sport through …
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€59.19
Linda J. Borish & Gerald R. (North Central College, USA) Gems: The Routledge History of American Sport
The Routledge History of American Sport provides the first comprehensive overview of historical research in American sport from the early Colonial period to the present day. Considering sport through …
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€58.96
David K. Wiggins: Sport in America, Volume II
Sport in America: From Colonial Leisure to Celebrity Figures and Globalization, Volume II, presents 18 thought-provoking essays focusing on the changes and patterns in American sport during six disti …
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€53.60
David K. Wiggins: Sport in America, Volume II
Sport in America: From Colonial Leisure to Celebrity Figures and Globalization, Volume II, presents 18 thought-provoking essays focusing on the changes and patterns in American sport during six disti …
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€53.39
David K. Wiggins & Wayne Wilson: LA Sports
LA Sports brings together sixteen essays covering various aspects of the development and changing nature of sport in one of America’s most fascinating and famous cities. The writers cover a range of …
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€38.19
John Nauright & David K Wiggins: Sport and Revolutionaries
This collection examines the role of sport in the lives of key revolutionary thinkers and leftist activists. In contrast to those who take a more romantic view of sport and believe in its apolitical …
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€56.70
John Nauright & David K Wiggins: Sport and Revolutionaries
This collection examines the role of sport in the lives of key revolutionary thinkers and leftist activists. In contrast to those who take a more romantic view of sport and believe in its apolitical …
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€56.38
John Nauright & David K Wiggins: Routledge Handbook of Sport, Race and Ethnicity
Few issues have engaged sports scholars more than those of race and ethnicity. Today, globalization and migration mean all major sports leagues include players from around the globe, bringing into pl …
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€61.77
John Nauright & David K Wiggins: Routledge Handbook of Sport, Race and Ethnicity
Few issues have engaged sports scholars more than those of race and ethnicity. Today, globalization and migration mean all major sports leagues include players from around the globe, bringing into pl …
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€61.73
Mark Dyreson & David K. Wiggins: Black Mercuries
An essential source on African American athletes and Olympic history.’ Booklist, Starred Review, and Named a Booklist Top 10 Sports Book of 2023The first book to fully chronicle the struggles and tri …
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€50.19
Daniel A. Nathan: Rooting for the Home Team
Rooting for the Home Team examines how various American communities create and maintain a sense of collective identity through sports. Looking at large cities such as Chicago, Baltimore, and Los Ange …
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€25.35
David K. Wiggins: Out of the Shadows
The original essays in this comprehensive collection examine the lives and sports of famous and not-so-famous African American male and female athletes from the nineteenth century to today. Here are …
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€34.55
R . Pierre Rodgers & David K. Wiggins: Rivals
The sixteen original essays in this collection cover influential and famous rivalries from a variety of sports, including track and field, golf, boxing, basketball, tennis, ice skating, baseball, foo …
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€41.78
Alan G. Gobley & John Nauright: Beyond C. L. R. James
Beyond C. L. R. James brings together essays analyzing the intercon nections among race, ethnicity, and sport. Published in memory of C. L. R. James, the revolutionary sociologist and writer from Tri …
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€51.15
Chris Elzey & David K. Wiggins: DC Sports
Washington, DC, is best known for its politics and monuments, but sport has always been an integral part of the city, and Washingtonians are among the country’s most avid sports fans. DC Sports gathe …
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€34.50
Ryan Swanson & David K. Wiggins: Philly Sports
Philadelphia sports anchored by the Eagles, Flyers, Phillies, and 76ers have a long, and sometimes tortured, history. Philly fans have booed more than their share and have earned a reputation as some …
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€34.67
Ryan Swanson & David K. Wiggins: Separate Games
Winner of the 2017 NASSH Book Award for best edited collection.The hardening of racial lines during the first half of the twentieth century eliminated almost all African Americans from white organize …
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€38.22