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Jump for joy : jazz, basketball, and Black culture in 1930s America
Title:
Jump for joy : jazz, basketball, and Black culture in 1930s America
Author:
Caponi-Tabery, Gena.
Personal Author:
Caponi-Tabery, Gena.
Publication Information:
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2008]

©2008
Physical Description:
xx, 260 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Sneakers and tuxes -- Up, up and away -- The 1936 Olympics -- The Lindy Hop takes to the air -- The joint is jumping -- "That's not basketball": fast breaks, jump shots and slam dunks -- The Brown Bomber: Joe Louis -- Racial uplift and cultural permission -- Jump Jim Crow -- Upward mobility: Pullman porters, A. Philip Randolph, and political change -- Jump for joy! -- Afterword: jumping as play: an aesthetic and theoretical perspective.
Subject Term:
African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.

Jazz -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Sports -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Social change -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century.

African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.

African Americans -- History -- 1877-1964.
Geographic Term:
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9781558496637

9781558496620
Format :
Book

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