The Set-Up Men: Race, Culture and Resistance in Black Baseball

This book is an examination of cultural resistance to segregation in the world of black baseball through an analysis of editorial art, folktales, nicknames, "manhood" and the art of clowning. African Americans worked to dismantle Jim Crow through the creation of a cultural counter-narrative that centered on baseball and the Negro Leagues that celebrated black achievement and that highlighted the contradictions and fallacies of white supremacy in the first half of the twentieth century.

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The Set-Up Men: Race, Culture and Resistance in Black Baseball

This book is an examination of cultural resistance to segregation in the world of black baseball through an analysis of editorial art, folktales, nicknames, "manhood" and the art of clowning. African Americans worked to dismantle Jim Crow through the creation of a cultural counter-narrative that centered on baseball and the Negro Leagues that celebrated black achievement and that highlighted the contradictions and fallacies of white supremacy in the first half of the twentieth century.

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The Set-Up Men: Race, Culture and Resistance in Black Baseball

The Set-Up Men: Race, Culture and Resistance in Black Baseball

by Sarah L. Trembanis
The Set-Up Men: Race, Culture and Resistance in Black Baseball

The Set-Up Men: Race, Culture and Resistance in Black Baseball

by Sarah L. Trembanis

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Overview

This book is an examination of cultural resistance to segregation in the world of black baseball through an analysis of editorial art, folktales, nicknames, "manhood" and the art of clowning. African Americans worked to dismantle Jim Crow through the creation of a cultural counter-narrative that centered on baseball and the Negro Leagues that celebrated black achievement and that highlighted the contradictions and fallacies of white supremacy in the first half of the twentieth century.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781476616575
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date: 07/15/2014
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 240
File size: 3 MB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Sarah L. Trembanis is an associate professor of history at Immaculata University, Pennsylvania. She lives in Middletown Delaware.
Sarah L. Trembanis is an associate professor of history at Immaculata University, Pennsylvania. She lives in Middletown, Delaware.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction—“A jim-crow affair”: Negro League Baseball
One. Sport and the Contest Over Space
Two. “A man and a gentleman in every respect”: Negotiating Black Manhood and Respectability in a Segregated Sport
Three. Representing Race: Black Baseball and Visual Images
Four. Signifying Baseball: Tricksters and Folklore in Black Baseball
Five. Giants and a Gentleman: Naming and Resistance in the Negro Leagues
Six. Send in the Clowns: Clowning Teams and Trickster Resistance
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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