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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book contributes significantly to the fields of sports history, African American history, U.S. history, and civil rights history and
provides a fresh look at the integration of college athletics from several different regions of the United States. This interregional focus illustrates the complex and multifaceted ways in which integration—primarily in college athletics—occurred in the post-World War II era. It also reveals much about the broader forces that shaped the push to dismantle barriers to political, economic, and social equality." -- Michael E. Lomax * University of Iowa, Department of Health and Sports Studies, Associate Professor *
"In using college football as a means for understanding the civil rights movement, this book reveals much about broad issues surrounding integration and the push to break down racial barriers and is a valuable resource for those interested in sports, civil rights, and African American history. Recommended." * Choice *
"This book will occupy an important—and previously empty—place on the bookshelf of American sports history for many years to come." -- Murray Sperber * American Historical Review *
"College Athletes, Phones in Hand, Force Shift in Protest Movement" by Alan Blinder and Billy Witz
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/sports/ncaafootball/george-floyd-protests-college-sports.html
* New York Times *
"The Impact and Evolution of College Football Player Protest," by Alex Kirshner
https://www.theringer.com/2020/6/30/21307518/college-football-player-protests-black-lives-matter-movement * The Ringer *
"This book contributes significantly to the fields of sports history, African American history, U.S. history, and civil rights history and
provides a fresh look at the integration of college athletics from several different regions of the United States. This interregional focus illustrates the complex and multifaceted ways in which integration—primarily in college athletics—occurred in the post-World War II era. It also reveals much about the broader forces that shaped the push to dismantle barriers to political, economic, and social equality." -- Michael E. Lomax * University of Iowa, Department of Health and Sports Studies, Associate Professor *
"In using college football as a means for understanding the civil rights movement, this book reveals much about broad issues surrounding integration and the push to break down racial barriers and is a valuable resource for those interested in sports, civil rights, and African American history. Recommended." * Choice *
"This book will occupy an important—and previously empty—place on the bookshelf of American sports history for many years to come." -- Murray Sperber * American Historical Review *
"Lane Demas paints a richer, more nuanced portrait of how race shaped college football."
* American Studies *
"College Athletes, Phones in Hand, Force Shift in Protest Movement" by Alan Blinder and Billy Witz
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/sports/ncaafootball/george-floyd-protests-college-sports.html
* New York Times *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue
1. Beyond Jackie Robinson: Racial Integration in American College Football and New Directions in Sport History
2. "On the Threshold of Broad and Rich Football Pastures": Integrated College Football at UCLA, 1938-1941
3. "A Fist That Was Very Much Intentional": Postwar Football in the Midwest and the 1951 Johnny Bright Scandal
4. "We Play Anyone": Deciphering the Racial Politics of Georgia Football and the 1956 Sugar Bowl Controversy
5. "Beat the Devil Out of BYU": Football and Black Power in the Mountain West, 1968-1970
Epilogue
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
