African Americans and Popular Culture: Volume 2 Sports

by Todd Boyd

The African American influence on popular culture is among the most sweeping and lasting this country has seen. Despite a history of institutionalized racism, black artists, entertainers, and entrepreneurs managed to forge deep relationships within American popular culture. Pioneers such as Oscar Michaeux, Paul Robeson, Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, Langston Hughes, Bill Bojangles Robinson, and Ella Fitzgerald paved the way for Jackie Robinson, Louis...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275989240
• ISBN13: 9780275989248
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 268 Pages