The Unlevel Playing Field
Subtitle: A Documentary History of the African American Experience in Sport (Sport and Society)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: June 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780252028205
Subjects: Leisure; Sports & Outdoor Recreation; Sociology Of Sports; Sports & Recreation; Sports; United States; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Sports & Recreation / History; Discrimination in sports; General; African American athletes; History
First sentence: The pervasiveness of slavery in antebellum America and the depth of oppression facing free people of color, North and South, were the principal elements in the shaping of African American history before 1860.