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Informationen zum Autor Sundiata Djata studies and teaches African history, African American history, Caribbean history, Latin American history, and U.S. sport history and has received degrees from the University of Illinois, Urbana- Campaign; Oklahoma City University; Morgan State University; and the University of Massachusetts. Djata is the author of The Bamana by the Niger: Kingdom, Jihad, and Colonization, 1712-1920 and has written articles on black music history, the Brazilian Naval Revolt of 1910, blacks and advertising, and the construction of black sexuality. Klappentext Drawing on original and published interviews, writings, and articles, the author offers an in-depth look at black participation in tennis, from the first courts in Tuskegee in 1880 through the achievements of Aletha Gibson, Arthur Ashe, and Venus and Serena Williams. Zusammenfassung Useful for tennis players! sports historians! readers of black history and/or black sports figures! and all those interested in the sport! this book looks at the rich history of blacks on US tennis courts. The author examines the role that this white sport traditionally played in the black community.
About the author
Sundiata Djata teaches African and African American sports history at Northern Illinois University. He has been published in the Journal of Caribbean Studies, Business and Society Review, Drum, and Sankofa.
