This two-volume set features 400 articles on African-Americans in sports, including biographical entries as well as entries on events, tournaments, leagues, clu

More than a Game discusses how African American men and women sought to participate in sport and what that participation meant to them, the African American com

Sixteen contributions cover topics such as African American culture and sport, the representation of O.J. Simpson, the impact of Tiger Woods' success, a physiol

In virtually every sport in which they are given opportunity to compete, people of African descent dominate. East Africans own every distance running record. Pr

African Americans have made substantial contributions to the sporting world, and vice versa. This wide-ranging collection of new essays explores the inextricabl