In the game: race, identity, and sports in the twentieth century

Introduction : "no compromise with slavery! : no union with slaveholders," or "who was the last team to integrate?" / Amy Bass

Pt. I. Heroes

1. "Richie" Allen, whitey's ways, and me : a political education in the 1960s / Matthew Frye Jacobson

2. In sports the best man wins : how Joe Louis whupped Jim Crow / Theresa E. Runstedtler

Pt. II. Fans

3. Race and silence in Argentine football / Grant Farred

4. Reading and rereading the game : reflections on West Indies cricket / Michael Arthur and Jennifer Scanlon

5. Wa a o, wa ba ski na me ska ta! : "Indian" mascots and the pathology of anti-indigenous racism / David Anthony Tyeeme Clark

Pt. III. Aesthetics

6. Backfield in motion : the transformation of the NFL by black culture / Joel Dinerstein

7. harmonizing nation : Mexico and the 1968 Olympics / Eric Zolov

Pt. IV. Futures

8. Courtside : race and basketball in the works of John Edgar Wideman / Tracie Church Guzzio

9. stepping stone : Larry Holmes, Gerry Cooney, and Rocky / Carlo Rotella.