Baseball: The Negro League and Racism in America

Negro Leagues;baseball;African Americans;sports;College of Arts and Sciences: Liberal Studies

Hull, John L.Flint ;

University of Michigan

关键词: Negro Leagues;    baseball;    African Americans;    sports;    College of Arts and Sciences: Liberal Studies;   

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瑞士|英语

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【 摘 要 】

My endeavor toward completion of a graduate thesis involves research on the subjects of ;;Baseball, The Negro League and Racism.;; Documenting the lives of American Negro sports figures, their professional as well as their personal lives, backgrounds, racial/ethnic make up, the hardships they endured as well as the challenges they encountered, demonstrating how they experienced adversity and prejudice, turning it into fame and acceptance. Because American sports is a microcosm of American culture, my efforts will trace the trends and emergence of the final acceptance of athletes of color, based upon skill rather than color. The question arises, ;;Is the sports arena the only hope of the disfranchised for acceptance into mainstream America;;? It appears in American society that sports and acceptance of a gifted athlete are a social leveling device. If, in fact, the athlete is extraordinary, racial origins and cultural differences are neutralized.