Conspiracy of Silence

Chris Lamb

Description

“Understanding the curious intersection of sports and politics is always a perilous journey. But with Chris Lamb as a guide, it’s more than a joy. It’s a revelation.” — Dave Zirin, author of A People’s History of Sports in the United States “A significant contribution to the study of baseball, race, and the press.” — Tre y St re cker, Journal of Sport History “A valuable contribution to the history of the desegregation of baseball.” — Peter Lush, Sport in History “Everyone knows that Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color line in 1947. But few people know about the bold inter- racial movement that laid the foundation for Robinson’s achievement. Progressive and left- wing activists, radical journalists, and the Black press led the effort to desegregate baseball. The campaign was one of the most important civil rights stories of the 1930s and 1940s. Most white Americans knew nothing about this story because mainstream newspapers said little about the color line and less about the efforts to end it. Lamb shows how white mainstream sportswriters perpetuated the color line by participating in what their Black counterparts called a “conspiracy of silence.” — Peter Dreier, Huffington Post “Lamb’s thorough journalistic exposé chronicles the drama and history behind the game, while tracing how the desegregation of baseball parallels the story of the civil rights movement in the United States.

Sujets

• Sociologie, société et politique
• Béisbol
• USA
• News
• Ethnic studies
• History of sport
• 20th century
• Media studies
• États-Unis
• Reportage
• Baseball
• Media

Informations

• Publié par: Nebraska
• Date de parution: 01 avril 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780803240209
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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