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Game of privilege : an African American history of golf /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Demas, Lane (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Series:John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Subjects:
African American golfers > History.
African Americans > Civil rights > History.
Golf > Social aspects > United States.
Golf > United States > History.
Discrimination in sports > United States > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Real democracy is found on the links : African Americans and the origins of golf in the United States
  • One hears of Negro country clubs : golfing the Great Migration and Harlem Renaissance
  • Our masters : the development of the United Golfers Association
  • I will take your own golf stick and wham the world : golf and the postwar civil rights movement
  • Guns in their golf bags : Black Power on the links
  • Thai people don't get hate mail : race and golf in the age of Tiger Woods.