Sporting Justice: The Chatham Coloured All Stars and Black Baseball in Southwestern Ontario, 1915-1958 - Softcover

Wright, Miriam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1771125845 ISBN 13: 9781771125840

Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

Relates to topical stories of sports and race (eg., Colin Kaepernick)

Expands on Black history, history of race in Canada (troubles the idea that Canada is more benevolent and that there was no racism or segregation here, which many people believe)

For sports historians and sport sociologists

Accessible for the general reader interested in baseball history

Chatham Coloured All-Stars to be recognized by Canadian Sports Hall of Fame in 2022

Another book on this team will be published in May 2023 but is for general reader and only follows their championship year. (Tentative title 1934: The Chatham Coloured All-Stars’ Barrier-Breaking Year) – not our book

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Miriam Wright is an Associate Professor of History at University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. She researches and teaches 20th-century Canadian history. Her recent work has focussed on race and sport in Canada, and on Chinese immigration to Newfoundland and Labrador.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1771125845
• ISBN 13: 9781771125840
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 264
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar