Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/63158to listen full audiobooks. Title: Separate Games: African American Sport behind the Walls of Segregation (Sport, Culture, and Society) Author: David K. Wiggins - editor, Ryan Swanson - editor Narrator: David Sadzin Format: mp3 Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins Release date: 11-28-18 Ratings: 3 out of 5 stars, 1 rating Genres: Sociology of Sports Publisher's Summary: The hardening of racial lines during the first half of the 20th century eliminated almost all African Americans from white organized sports, forcing black athletes to form their own teams, organizations, and events. This separate sporting culture, explored in the 12 essays included here, comprised much more than athletic competition; these “separate games” provided examples of black enterprise and black self-help and showed the importance of agency and the quest for racial uplift in a country fraught with racialist thinking and discrimination.

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