Black baseball, black business: race enterprise and the fate of the segregated dollar
Auteur :
Newman, Roberta J. / Rosen, Joel Nathan
Éditeur :
University Press of Mississippi
ISBN :
9781617039546
Date de publication :
30 mars 2014
Dimensions :
22,8 x 15,2 x 1,7 cm
Poids :
539 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
There have been many books written on great individual players who played in the Negro Leagues and/or integrated the Major Leagues. But Newman and Rosen move beyond hagiography to analyse what happens when a community has its economic footing undermined while simultaneously being called upon to celebrate a larger social progress.