Sporting Justice: The Chatham Coloured All Stars and Black Baseball in Southwestern Ontario, 1915-1958 - Softcover

Miriam Wright (author)

 
9781771125840: Sporting Justice: The Chatham Coloured All Stars and Black Baseball in Southwestern Ontario, 1915-1958
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1771125845 ISBN 13: 9781771125840
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2023

Synopsis

  • Relates to topical stories of sports and race (eg., Colin Kaepernick)
  • Expands on Black history, history of race in Canada (troubles the idea that Canada is more benevolent and that there was no racism or segregation here, which many people believe)
  • For sports historians and sport sociologists
  • Accessible for the general reader interested in baseball history
  • Chatham Coloured All-Stars to be recognized by Canadian Sports Hall of Fame in 2022
  • Another book on this team will be published in May 2023 but is for general reader and only follows their championship year. (Tentative title 1934: The Chatham Coloured All-Stars’ Barrier-Breaking Year) – not our book

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    About the Author

    Miriam Wright is an Associate Professor of History at University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. She researches and teaches 20th-century Canadian history. Her recent work has focussed on race and sport in Canada, and on Chinese immigration to Newfoundland and Labrador.

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    Publisher
    Wilfrid Laurier University Press
    Publication date
    2023
    Language
    English
    ISBN 10 
    1771125845
    ISBN 13 
    9781771125840
    Binding
    Paperback
    Number of pages
    232