The set-up men
Subtitle: race, culture and resistance in Black baseball
By: Sarah L. Trembanis
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780786477968
Subjects: Baseball; History; Negro leagues; Discrimination in sports; African American baseball players
Description: "Through an analysis of editorial art, folktales, nicknames, "manhood" and the art of clowning, African Americans worked to dismantle Jim Crow through the creation of a cultural counter-narrative that centered on baseball and the Negro Leagues, that celebrated black achievement, that highlighted the contradictions and fallacies of white supremacy in the first half of the twentieth century."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "A jim-crow affair" : Negro League baseball --; title: Sport and the contest over space --; title: "A man and a gentleman in every respect" : negotiating black manhood and respectability in a segregated sport --; title: Representing race : black baseball and visual images --; title: Signifying baseball : tricksters and folklore in black baseball --; title: Giants and a gentleman : naming and resistance in the Negro Leagues --; title: Send in the clowns : clowning teams and trickster resistance.