Research Catalog

Title

Game of privilege : an African American history of golf / Lane Demas.

Author

Demas, Lane

Publication

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]

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Description

xvii, 363 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

This groundbreaking history of African Americans and golf explores the role of race, class, and public space in golf course development, the stories of individual black golfers during the age of segregation, the legal battle to integrate public golf courses, and the little-known history of the United Golfers Association (UGA)--a black golf tour that operated from 1925 to 1975. Lane Demas charts how African Americans nationwide organized social campaigns, filed lawsuits, and went to jail in order to desegregate courses; he also provides dramatic stories of golfers who boldly confronted wider segregation more broadly in their local communities. As national civil rights organizations debated golf's symbolism and whether or not to pursue the game's integration, black players and caddies took matters into their own hands and helped shape its subculture, while UGA participants forged one of the most durable black sporting organizations in American history as they fought to join the white Professional Golfers' Association (PGA).

Series Statement

The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books.
• John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.

Subject

• African American golfers > History
• African Americans > History
• Golf > Social aspects > United States
• Golf > United States > History
• Discrimination in sports > United States > History
• African American golfers
• African Americans > Civil rights
• Discrimination in sports
• Golf
• Golf > Social aspects
• United States

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Real democracy is found on the links : African Americans and the origins of golf in the United States -- One hears of Negro country clubs : golfing the Great Migration and Harlem Renaissance -- Our masters : the development of the United Golfers Association -- I will take your own golf stick and wham the world : golf and the postwar civil rights movement -- Guns in their golf bags : Black Power on the links -- Thai people don't get hate mail : race and golf in the age of Tiger Woods.

ISBN

• 9781469634227
• 1469634228
• 9781469634234 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• ^^2017009057
• 40027410206

OCLC

• 974992089
• SCSB-12331054

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library