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About this book
Boston is a city known for its sports as well as its troubled racial conflict. But generations of Black athletes, teams, sportswriters, and front-office executives have exercised historic influence in Boston over the years as they advocated for racial integration and transformed their sports into modes of racial pride, resistance, and cultural expression. Race and Resistance in Boston goes beyond the familiar topics associated with the city’s premiere professional teams, the Red Sox and the Celtics, to recount the long history of Black sporting culture in the city.
This collection takes a close look at Black Bostonians’ involvement in sports as varied as soccer, cricket, boxing, baseball, golf, tennis, basketball, and hockey—and illuminates the effect of Boston’s desegregation and busing crisis on scholastic athletics in the 1970s and 1980s. With personal reminiscences from former New England Patriot Devin McCourty and journalist Bijan Bayne, as well as research from scholars of sport, Race and Resistance in Boston captures the intersection of Black history and sporting culture in America’s City on a Hill.
This collection takes a close look at Black Bostonians’ involvement in sports as varied as soccer, cricket, boxing, baseball, golf, tennis, basketball, and hockey—and illuminates the effect of Boston’s desegregation and busing crisis on scholastic athletics in the 1970s and 1980s. With personal reminiscences from former New England Patriot Devin McCourty and journalist Bijan Bayne, as well as research from scholars of sport, Race and Resistance in Boston captures the intersection of Black history and sporting culture in America’s City on a Hill.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part 1. Framing Race, Community, and Resistance in Boston
- 1. Integration in Sport: How Busing Reshaped Athletic Talent
- 2. Black Activism in Boston Sports
- 3. The Middle Lane: Race, Sports, Boston, Hoops, and Community
- Part 2. Legitimacy in the Jim Crow Era
- 4. Gentlemen of Color: Oliver and Fred Watson and New England Black Soccer
- 5. In Pursuit of the Boundary: Cricket in Boston’s West Indian Community, 1900–1950
- 6. Black Eyes: A History of Race in the Boston Prize Ring
- 7. The Color of Baseball: Race and Boston’s Sporting Community
- 8. Covering Race and Sports in Boston: The Pioneering Work of Mabray “Doc” Kountze
- 9. Pioneers of African American Golf at the Crossroads: The 1941 Negro National Open Golf Championship Tournament
- Part 3. Power and Performance in the Freedom Movement
- 10. Center of Controversy: Bill Russell and Boston
- 11. Willie O’Ree: The Sky’s the Limit
- 12. Zero Love: The Intersection of Race and Class in Boston Tennis
- 13. The Darling and the Dyke: Differing Receptions of the Comings Out of Jason Collins and Brittney Griner
- 14. The Enduring Sounds of Whiteness: Boston Sports Radio and Race
- 15. Act as If: Allison Feaster, the Politics of Inclusion, and Achieving the American Dream in the National Basketball Association
- Afterword: Balancing Sports Commemoration and Race
- Contributors
- Index