Black Baseball, Black Business: Race Enterprise and the Fate of the Segregated Dollar by Newman, Roberta J.

Black Baseball, Black Business: Race Enterprise and the Fate of the Segregated Dollar (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781617039546)

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Black Baseball, Black Business: Race Enterprise and the Fate of the Segregated Dollar by Newman, Roberta J.

Black Baseball, Black Business: Race Enterprise and the Fate of the Segregated Dollar

$110.00
Black Baseball, Black Business: Race Enterprise and the Fate of the Segregated Dollar by Newman, Roberta J.

Black Baseball, Black Business: Race Enterprise and the Fate of the Segregated Dollar

$110.00
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2014 Robert W. Peterson Award for Excellence in Negro League Research from the Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference, sponsored by Negro Leagues Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research

Roberta J. Newman and Joel Nathan Rosen have written an authoritative social history of the Negro Leagues. This book examines how the relationship between black baseball and black businesses functioned, particularly in urban areas with significant African American populations--Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Newark, New York, Philadelphia, and more. Inextricably bound together by circumstance, these sports and business alliances faced destruction and upheaval.

Once Jackie Robinson and a select handful of black baseball's elite gained acceptance in Major League Baseball and financial stability in the mainstream economy, shock waves traveled throughout the black business world. Though the economic impact on Negro League baseball is perhaps obvious due to its demise, the impact on other black-owned businesses and on segregated neighborhoods is often undervalued if not outright ignored in current accounts. 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 analyze what happens when a community has its economic footing undermined while simultaneously being called upon to celebrate a larger social progress. In this regard, Black Baseball, Black Business moves beyond the diamond to explore baseball's desegregation narrative in a critical and wide-ranging fashion.

Author: Roberta J. Newman, Joel Nathan Rosen
ISBN-10: 1617039543
ISBN-13: 9781617039546
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2014
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2014 pg. 118
By Roberta J. Newman
By Roberta J. Newman
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Roberta J. Newman is master professor in the Department of Liberal Studies at New York University. Her work has appeared in the journals Cooperstown Symposium: 2009-2010 and NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture. Joel Nathan Rosen is associate professor of sociology at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He is author of The Erosion of the American Sporting Ethos: Shifting Attitudes Toward Competition and From New Lanark to Mound Bayou: Owenism in the Mississippi Delta. He is founding coeditor of a five-volume collection that explores the forging and maintenance of the reputations of celebrity athletes: Fame to Infamy: Race, Sport, and the Fall from Grace; A Locker Room of Her Own: Celebrity, Sexuality, and Female Athletes; Reconstructing Fame: Sport, Race, and Evolving Reputations; More than Cricket and Football: International Sport and the Challenge of Celebrity; and The Circus Is in Town: Sport, Celebrity, and Spectacle, all published by University Press of Mississippi.

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