The story of Jackie Robinson valiantly breaking baseball’s color barrier in 1947 is one most Americans know. But less recognized is the fact that some seventy years earlier, following the Civil War, baseball was tenuously biracial and had the potential for a truly open game. How, then, did the game become so firmly segregated that it required a trailblazer like Robinson? The answer, Ryan A. Swanson suggests, has everything to do with the politics of “reconciliation” and a wish to avoid the issues of race that an integrated game necessarily raised.
The history of baseball during Reconstruction, as Swanson tells it, is a story of lost opportunities. Thomas Fitzgerald and Octavius Catto (a Philadelphia baseball tandem), for example, were poised to emerge as pioneers of integration in the 1860s. Instead, the desire to create a “national game”—professional and appealing to white northerners and southerners alike—trumped any movement toward civil rights. Focusing on Philadelphia, Washington DC, and Richmond—three cities with large Black populations and thriving baseball clubs—Swanson uncovers the origins of baseball’s segregation and the mechanics of its implementation.
An important piece of sports history, his work also offers a better understanding of Reconstruction, race, and segregation in America.
Автор: Sefton Название: Reconciliation of National Income and Expenditure ISBN: 0521120071 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521120074 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5544.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Disparities between different GDP estimates are well known and widely discussed. Here, the authors describe a method for examining the discrepancies, allocating them with reference to data reliability. The book includes a full set of estimates for the UK national accounts for the period 1920-1990.
Автор: Worthington Jr Everett L. Название: Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Theory and Application ISBN: 0415763495 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415763493 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7501.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: To be unforgiving is harmful
Автор: Philpott Daniel Название: Just and Unjust Peace: An Ethic of Political Reconciliation ISBN: 0190248351 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190248352 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5067.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In the wake of political evil on a large scale, what does justice consist of? Daniel Philpott takes up this question in Just and Unjust Peace.
Название: Politics of reconciliation in multicultural societies ISBN: 0199587485 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199587483 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6572.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Drawing on both theoretical debates and case studies from around the world, this book explores how the politics of reconciliation relates to various models of democratic citizenship.
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