Lane Demas

Biographic Data

ID1258370
NAMELane Demas
GIVEN NAMESLane
FAMILY NAMEDemas
SIGNATUREDEMAS L
AFFILIATIONSCentral Michigan University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS6
WORKS AS AUTHOR13
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • White Ice

    Open AccessLane DemasARTICLEJournal of American History2025

  • Katherine C. Mooney. Isaac Murphy

    Open AccessLane DemasARTICLEThe American Historical Review2024

  • The Olympics That Never Happened

    Open AccessLane DemasARTICLEJournal of American History2024

    Journal Article The Olympics That Never Happened: Denver '76 and the Politics of Growth Get access The Olympics That Never Happened: Denver '76 and the Politics of Growth. By Adam Berg. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2023. x, 293 pp. $40.00.) Lane Demas Lane Demas Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 110, Issue 4, Mar…

  • D errick E. W hite . Blood, Sweat, and Tears

    Open AccessLane DemasARTICLEThe American Historical Review2021

  • No Game for Boys to Play

    Open AccessLane DemasARTICLEJournal of American History2021

  • Undercurrents of Power

    Open AccessLane DemasARTICLEJournal of American History2019

    Do not overlook the term aquatic culture in the title of this wonderful book from Kevin Dawson. It describes many cultural activities of interest to a range of historians, including recreational swimming and surfing; bathing and water-based rituals; underwater diving for shellfish, sea turtles, and pearls; fishing; harpooning; canoeing and canoe building; shipwreck salvaging; and lifeguarding. Dawson deftly explores all of these topics in a serie…

  • Separate Games

    Lane DemasARTICLEJournal of American History2018

    Separate Games is a collection of twelve essays that highlight the importance of segregated sport in African American communities, at both the local and national levels, beginning in the late nineteenth century and continuing well past the breakdown of Jim Crow after World War II. Edited by David K. Wiggins—a widely read, senior scholar at George Mason University and former editor of the Journal of Sport History—and Ryan A. Swanson—an assistant p…

  • Eric Allen Hall. Arthur Ashe

    Lane DemasARTICLEThe American Historical Review2015

    Journal Article Eric Allen Hall. Arthur Ashe: Tennis and Justice in the Civil Rights Era. Get access Eric Allen Hall. Arthur Ashe: Tennis and Justice in the Civil Rights Era. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. Pp. x, 331. $34.95. Lane Demas Lane Demas Central Michigan University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 120, Issue 4, October 201…

  • BRIAN M. INGRASSIA. The Rise of Gridiron University

    Lane DemasARTICLEThe American Historical Review2013

    Journal Article Brian M. Ingrassia. The Rise of Gridiron University: Higher Education's Uneasy Alliance with Big-Time Football. Get access Brian M. Ingrassia. The Rise of Gridiron University: Higher Education's Uneasy Alliance with Big-Time Football. (CultureAmerica.) Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2012. Pp. xiii, 322. $34.95. Lane Demas Lane Demas Central Michigan University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google…

  • Revisiting Stagg’s University and College Football Historiography

    Lane DemasARTICLEJournal of Sport History2012

    Book Review| April 01 2012 Revisiting Stagg’s University and College Football Historiography Lane Demas Lane Demas Department of History, Central Michigan University Correspondence to [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2012) 39 (1): 111–121. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.39.1.111 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Ci…

  • Benching Jim Crow

    Lane DemasARTICLEJournal of American History2011Cited by: 5

    Journal Article Benching Jim Crow: The Rise and Fall of the Color Line in Southern College Sports, 1890–1980 Get access Benching Jim Crow: The Rise and Fall of the Color Line in Southern College Sports, 1890–1980. By Charles H. Martin. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010. xxvi, 374 pp. Cloth, $95.00, ISBN978-0-252-03551-7. Paper, $30.00, ISBN978-0-252-07750-0.) Lane Demas Lane Demas Central Michigan University Mount Pleasant, Michigan dem…

  • Beyond Jackie Robinson

    Open AccessLane DemasARTICLEHistory Compass2007Cited by: 1References: 2

    This article seeks to unite a narrative of African American integration in collegiate football with the broader narrative of the Civil Rights Movement. It emphasizes the nebulous history of athletic integration and explores how that process compared to the overall course of civil rights during the twentieth century. Rather than focus on a myriad of schools and regions, it introduces the popular discourse surrounding the largest conflicts over int…

  • Barnstorming to Heaven

    Lane Demas, Alan J Pollock et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2007