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⢇ CONTENTS Preface xi 1 Sneakers and Tuxes 1 2 Up, Up, and Away 21 3 The 1936 Olympics 35 4 The Lindy Hop Takes to the Air 51 5 The Joint Is Jumping 68 6 “That’s Not Basketball”: Fast Breaks, Jump Shots, and Slam Dunks 81 7 The Brown Bomber: Joe Louis 113 8 Racial Uplift and Cultural Permission 135 9 Jump Jim Crow 145 10 Upward Mobility: Pullman Porters, A. Philip Randolph, and Political Change 160 11 Jump for Joy! 175 Afterword: Jumping as Play: An Aesthetic and Theoretical Perspective 187 Notes 201 Index 239 Illustrations follow page 100 ...

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