Book Reviews

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Notes

1. Phil Vasili, Colouring Over the White Line: The History of Black Footballers in Britain (Edinburgh, 2000); Frederick McKissack & and Frederick McKissack, Jr., Black Hoops: The History of African-Americans in Basketball (New York, 1999); Charles Ross, Outside the Lines: African Americans and the Integration of the National Football League (New York, 1999); Lawrence Hogan, Shades of Glory: The Negro Leagues and the Story of African-American Baseball (Washington, DC, 2006); Robert Peterson, Only the Ball was White: A History of Legendary Black Players and All-black Professional Teams (Oxford, 1992).

2. Arthur Ashe and Frank Deford, Portrait in Motion: The Arthur Ashe Story (Boston, 1975); Arthur Ashe and Arnold Rampersad, Days of Grace (London, 1996); Sue Davidson, Changing the Game: The Stories of Tennis Champions Alice Marble and Althea Gibson (Seattle, 1997); Frances Clayton Gray and Yanick Rice Lamb, Born to Win: The Authorized Biography of Althea Gibson (New Jersey, 2004).

1. For example, Michael Berkowitz and Ruti Ungar, eds. Fighting back? Jewish and Black Boxers in Britain (London, 2007) and Kasia Boddy, Boxing: A Cultural History (London, 2008).

2. Terry Eagleton, The Ideology of the Aesthetic (Oxford, 1990).