Race and Resistance in Boston: A Contested Sports History
Language: English
Published by University of Nebraska Press, 2025
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- Title
- Race and Resistance in Boston: A Contested Sports History
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1496232682
- ISBN 13
- 9781496232687
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Boston is a city known for its sports as well as its troubled racial conflict. But generations of Black athletes, teams, sportswriters, and front-office executives have exercised historic influence in Boston over the years as they advocated for racial integration and transformed their sports into modes of racial pride, resistance, and cultural expression. Race and Resistance in Boston goes beyond the familiar topics associated with the city’s premiere professional teams, the Red Sox and the Celtics, to recount the long history of Black sporting culture in the city.
This collection takes a close look at Black Bostonians’ involvement in sports as varied as soccer, cricket, boxing, baseball, golf, tennis, basketball, and hockey―and illuminates the effect of Boston’s desegregation and busing crisis on scholastic athletics in the 1970s and 1980s. With personal reminiscences from former New England Patriot Devin McCourty and journalist Bijan Bayne, as well as research from scholars of sport, Race and Resistance in Boston captures the intersection of Black history and sporting culture in America’s City on a Hill.
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