Overview

Black Resistance in Amateur Basketball and Football in Jim Crow Virginia by Marvin T. Chiles analyzes Black football and basketball culture at the high school and college levels in Virginia before the days of integration. Rather than studying amateur sports as merely leisure pastimes, Chiles argues that they coalesced into a key cultural institution that sustained Black Virginians’ collective sense of community, achievement, and purpose during segregation.

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""[Playing for Power] is a beneficial contribution to the historiographies of both HBCUs and amateur athletics more broadly. . . . Its argument is clear, as is its grasp on the historiography. The book is readable and interesting."" --Thomas Aiello, author of Hoops: A Cultural History of Basketball in America and The Kings of Casino Park: Black Baseball in the Lost Season of 1932 ""Chiles examines the history of football and basketball in Virginia from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s--specifically, the role African Americans played in cultivating and developing athletes, teams, and leaders at HBCUs that facilitated opportunity, confidence, and pride in numerous communities throughout this state during segregation."" --Charles K. Ross, author of Outside the Lines: African Americans and the Integration of the National Football League

Author Information

Marvin T. Chiles is associate professor of African American history at Old Dominion University. Chiles is author of The Struggle to Change: Race and the Politics of Reconciliation in Modern Richmond. He serves on the editorial board for the Journal of African American Studies and the board of directors for the Virginia Forum.

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