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activism
african american history
anti-racism
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basketball
Black amateur sports
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black history
Black sports during Jim Crow
Black sports in Virginia
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civil rights
civil rights in sports
civil rights movement
desegregation
emancipation
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white supremacy
Product details
- ISBN 9780817322380
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jun 2025
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Black Resistance in Amateur Basketball and Football in Jim Crow Virginia by Marvin T. Chiles analyzes Black football and basketball culture at the high school and college levels in Virginia before the days of integration. Rather than studying amateur sports as merely leisure pastimes, Chiles argues that they coalesced into a key cultural institution that sustained Black Virginians’ collective sense of community, achievement, and purpose during segregation.
