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Boston's Black Athletes

Identity, Performance, and Activism
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Sport often mirrored the racial climate of the time, but it also informed and encouraged equality on and off the field. In Boston, the Black athletic body historically represented a challenge to the city's liberal image. Boston's Black Athletes: Identity, Performance, and Activism interprets Boston's contested racial history through the diverse experiences of the city's African American sports figures who directed their talent toward the struggle for social justice. Editors Robert Cvornyek and Douglas Stark and the contributors explore a variety of representative athletes, such as Kittie Knox, Louise Stokes, and Medina Dixon, that negotiated Boston's racial boundaries at sequential moments during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to demonstrate Boston's long and troubled racial history. The contributors' biographical sketches are grounded in stories that have remained memorable within Boston's Black neighborhoods. In recounting the struggles and triumphs of these individuals, this book amplifies their stories and reminds readers that Boston's Black sports fans found a historic consistency in their athletes to shape racial identity and cultural expression.
Robert Cvornyek is professor emeritus of history at Rhode Island College. Douglas Stark is principal consultant in Barrington, Rhode Island.
Boston's Black Athletes is essential reading for those interested in gaining insight into the role of race and sport in one of America's most historically important cities. Through highly detailed, compelling, and thoroughly researched stories on individual Black athletes since the era of Reconstruction, the complex nature of sport in segregated and often racially volatile Boston is fully uncovered and clearly delineated. --David K. Wiggins, George Mason University
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