More Than a Game: A History of the African American Experience in Sport, Hardcover - David K. Wiggins

More than a Game discusses how African American men and women sought to participate in sport and what that participation meant to them, the African...

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There is little doubt that computer and video games occupy a significant place in contemporary popular culture. Taking its cue from practices of re...

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A top-to-bottom look at England's national game, from one of the UK's leading business economists. The Premier League is the most commercially succ...

Reducere. DescriptionSports has never been only about what takes place on the playing field. Author and sports fan Matt Doeden explores past and current cont...

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Reducere. In "Leeds United: It's More Than Just a Game " lifelong Leeds fan Adrian Taylor tells his story of the club's fight for promotion to the Premiershi...

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Reducere. The Caring Solidarity framework is both descriptive and aspirational. It is an attempt to empower White teachers to do the work of interrogating th...

Reducere. Explore Captivating Stories and Facts about African American History! The history of African Americans is a long and tragic chronicle of events. Th...

Soon after the American Revolution, ?certain of the founders began to recognize the strategic significance of Asia and the Pacific and the vast mat...

Reducere. Explore Captivating Stories and Facts about African American History The history of African Americans is a long and tragic chronicle of events. The...

By analyzing the presidential foreign policy rhetoric of Dwight D. Eisenhower surrounding the Middle East, author Randall Fowler makes a timely arg...

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DescriptionAfrican American poetry is as old as America itself, yet this touchstone of American identity is often overlooked. In this critical hist...

Publisher: Citadel Press Inc., U.S.Author(s): Michael L. LanningNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 226 x 28Cover type: Pap...

DescriptionTimed perfectly for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the true story of how political prisoners under apartheid found hope and dignity...

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An African American Dilemma offers the first social history of northern Black debates over school integration versus separation from the 1840s to t...

Reducere. Explore Some of the Most Important Events and People in Black HistoryTwo captivating manuscripts in one book: African American History: A Captivati...

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When Dede sees a notice offering land to black people in Kansas, her family decides to give up their life of sharecropping to become homesteading p...

Celebrating the success of the tough, bold and fearless women who paved the way for today's athletes, from the 1800s to today. Athletes include; Se...

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Description'More than a Symbol' seeks to demonstrate that the interpretation of baptism as a mere symbol bearing witness to a previously completed ...

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Reducere. AFRICAN AMERICAN LAWMEN, 1867-1877 explores the understudied topic of African Americans in law enforcement, as well as in executive and elected pol...

Reducere. Barry Farm-Hillsdale was created under the auspices of the Freedmen's Bureau in 1867 in what was then the outskirts of the nation's capital. Reside...

Reducere. It was in Hampton Roads, Virginia, that hundreds gained their freedom. The teeming wharves were once a major station on the Underground Railroad, a...

Reducere. DescriptionAuthor and former Yell Squad member Debra Kleve White provides a firsthand account of game day in Lincoln. The Spirit of Nebraska offers...

Reducere. DescriptionBill Spiller was forty-seven when he was forced by desperate finances to caddie at the Hillcrest Country Club in Los Angeles. One day Sp...

This definitive history of African-American theatre embraces companies from across the U.S., as well as the anglophone Caribbean and African-Americ...

For several decades of the twentieth century, Venezuela enjoyed a prolonged period of low inflation, high growth, and social progress. During those...

DescriptionSoon after the American Revolution, certain of the founders began to recognize the strategic significance of Asia and the Pacific and th...