Sports and the Racial Divide: African American and Latino Experience in an Era of Change

Contributors

 Contributors Ron Briley is assistant headmaster and a history teacher at Sandia Preparatory School in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is also an adjunct professor of history at the University of New Mexico, Mexico Valencia campus. His work on film and sport history is published in various anthologies, reference works, and academic journals. Briley is the author of Class at Bat, Gender on Deck, and Race in the Hole: A Line-up of Essays on Twentieth-Century Culture and America’s Game. Michael Ezra is an associate professor in the Department of American Multicultural Studies at Sonoma State University. He received his PhD in American studies from the University of Kansas. His work has been published in the Journal of Sport History, American Studies, the Journal of African American Men, and the Encyclopedia of American Social Movements. He is completing a book that considers Muhammad Ali’s boxing career within the context of the Black Power Movement. Sarah K. Fields is an assistant professor at The Ohio State University. She holds a JD from Washington University in St. Louis and a PhD in American studies from the University of Iowa. Her book Female Gladiators: Gender, Law, and Contact Sport in America examines the intersection of gender, law, and contact sport. Billy Hawkins is an associate professor of sport sociology at the University of Georgia. His book The New Plantation: The Internal Colonization of Black Student Athletes at Predominantly White NCAA Division I Institutions examines the experiences of black student athletes in intercollegiate athletics. He has also written several scholarly articles on black athletes and their intercollegiate athletic experiences, the media Contributors  representation of black male and black male athletes, religion and sport, and youth and sport. Jorge Iber is a professor of history and an associate dean at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. His first book, Hispanics in the Mormon Zion, 1912–1999, deals with the origin and development of the Hispanic community in the Salt Lake City area. Since arriving at Texas Tech, he has worked on a series of articles and book-length projects dealing with the sporting experience (particularly high school football) of Mexican Americans. Kurt Edward Kemper is an assistant professor of history at the University of South Dakota. He received his MA in American history from George Mason University and PhD from Louisiana State University and A & M College. His most recent experience is as an assistant professor at River Parishes Community College. Kemper’s research interests include history of sports, and history of the Civil Rights Movement and social activism. Michael E. Lomax is an associate professor of sport history at the University of Iowa. His book Black Baseball Entrepreneurs 1860–1901: Operating by Any Means Necessary examines the ways entrepreneurs transformed the black game into a commercialized amusement. He has also written several articles dealing with the African American sporting experience and labor relations in professional sports. Samuel O. Regalado is a professor of history at California State University , Stanislaus, located in Turlock, California. He is the author of Viva Baseball!: Latin Major Leaguers and Their Special Hunger. Regalado, whose area of United States history includes a specialization of U.S. ethnic and immigration and U.S. sport, has written articles that have appeared in such journals as Pacific Northwest Quarterly, Journal of Sport History, and Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies. Richard Santillan is a professor emeritus of the Ethnic and Women’s Studies Department at California State University at Pomona. Santillan has published and edited extensively on Chicano/political history, voting rights, and Mexican history in the Midwest. He is working on two Contributors  books: Encuentros y Cuentos: An Oral History of Mexican Americans in the Midwestern United States, 1900–1950; and The Politics of Cultural Nationalism: El Partido de La Raza Unida in Southern California, 1969–1978. Maureen Smith is an associate professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Science at California State University, Sacramento. She received her BS and MS from Ithaca College and her MA and PhD from The Ohio State University. Her research interests are in race and gender issues in sport, the Olympic Movement and the social construction of race and ethnicity, and the post–World War II African American sporting experience. This page intentionally left blank ...