Separate Games

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 professor of history at the University of New Mexico—the book successfully argues that “sport history will always be incomplete if academicians only study African American athletes in relation to their white counterparts and in the context of integration rather than segregation” (p. xvi). It is a fine addition to the fields of sport history and African American history. The chapters are organized into three sections. The first, “Teams,” features essays on two men's teams—the Cuban Giants (baseball) and the New York Renaissance (basketball)—and two women's teams—the Philadelphia Tribune Girls (basketball) and the Tennessee State University Tigerbelles (track and field

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  Daphne Wiggins, David K Wiggins•Journal of Sport History•2016

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