Out of the Shadows: A Biographical History of African American Athletes

CONTRIBUTORS

C O N T R I B U T O R S GREGORY BOND is a doctoral candidate in American history at the University of Wisconsin. His dissertation is titled “Jim Crow at Play: Race, Manliness, and the Segregation of American Sports, 1876–1916.” He has published essays in several anthologies as well as in the Journal of Nebraska History. MARK DYRESON is associate professor of kinesiology and history at the Pennsylvania State University. He serves as president of the North American Society for Sport History and as the associate academic editor for the International Journal of the History of Sport. His research focuses primarily on the role of sport in shaping national, ethnic, and racial identities. Among his publications are Making the American Team: Sport, Culture, and the Olympic Experience and Sport and American Society: Insularity, Exceptionalism, and “Imperialism” (with J. A. Mangan). He has published several articles on sport and race in American culture in the Journal of Sport History, the Journal of Contemporary History, Gateway Heritage, Proteus, Olympika, and other journals. GERALD EARLY is Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters at Washington University, St. Louis. He is the editor and author of many books, including This Is Where I Came In: Black America in the 1960s; The Sammy Davis, Jr. Reader; The Muhammad Ali Reader; Body Language: Writers on Sport; Lure and Loathing: Essays on Race, Identity, and the Ambivalence of Assimilation; The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture; and Tuxedo Junction. He is currently finishing a book on Fisk University. ANTHONY O. EDMONDS is George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor of History at Ball State University. His research in sport history focuses on the cultural significance of prizefighting. He is the author of a biography of Joe Louis and has published articles on sport history in the Journal of Popular Culture and Conspectus of History. He has also written a history of the Vietnam War. 4WIGGINS_pages_373-460.qxd 9/12/06 12:06 PM Page 439 MARY JO FESTLE is a professor of history and director of the university -wide Honors Program at Elon University. Her research has focused on women’s sports, civil rights, and the history of medicine. She is the author of Playing Nice: Politics and Apologies in Women’s Sports. GERALD R. GEMS is a professor of health and physical education at North Central College and past president of the North American Society for Sport History. He is the author of Sports in North America: Sports Organized, 1880–1900; Windy City Wars: Labor, Leisure, and Sport in the Making of Chicago; For Pride, Profit, and Patriarchy: Football and the Incorporation of American Cultural Values; Viet Nam Vignettes: Tales of the Magnificent Bastards; and The American Crusade: Sport and American Imperialism. PAMELA GRUNDY is a historian who lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she pursues a variety of writing, teaching, and museum projects. Among her many publications are You Always Think of Home: A Portrait of Clay County, Alabama; Learning to Win: Sport, Education, and Social Change in North Carolina, 1880–1970; and Shattering the Glass: The Remarkable History of Women’s Basketball. Learning to Win garnered both the Herbert Feis Award from the American Historical Association and the Outstanding Book Award from the North American Society for Sport History. SUSAN HAMBURGER is the manuscripts cataloging librarian at the Pennsylvania State University. She is on the editorial board of the Society of American Archivists’ journal, AmericanArchivist, and her research interests include horse racing, African Americans, social history, the American Civil War, and archival topics. Among her publications are “On the Land for Life: Black Tenant Farmers on Tall Timbers Plantation,” Florida Historical Quarterly; seventeen biographical essays in American National Biography; “We Take Care of Our Womenfolk: The Home for Needy Confederate Women in Richmond, Virginia,” in Before the New Deal: Southern Social Welfare History, 1830–1930; four essays in African Americans in Sports; and eight essays in Encyclopedia of New Jersey. 440 CONTRIBUTORS 4WIGGINS_pages_373-460.qxd 9/12/06 12:06 PM Page 440 DOUGLAS HARTMANN is associate professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Race, Culture, and the Revolt of the Black Athlete: The 1968 African American Olympic Protests and Their Aftermath. He is currently completing a study of midnight basketball that explores the relationships among race, sports, and risk prevention in contemporary, neo-liberal public policy and popular...