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Thursday Night Lights : The Story of Black High School Football i
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- Publication Name
- University of Texas Press
- ISBN
- 9781477310342
- Book Title
- Thursday Night Lights : the Story of Black High School Football in Texas
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1in
- Genre
- Education, Sports & Recreation, History, Social Science
- Topic
- General, Sociology of Sports, Physical Education, Football, United States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, NM, Ok, Tx), Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 20 oz
- Number of Pages
- 260 Pages
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At a time when "Friday night lights" shone only on white high school football games, African American teams across Texas burned up the gridiron on Wednesday and Thursday nights. The segregated high schools in the Prairie View Interscholastic League (the African American counterpart of the University Interscholastic League, which excluded black schools from membership until 1967) created an exciting brand of football that produced hundreds of outstanding players, many of whom became college All-Americans, All-Pros, and Pro Football Hall of Famers, including NFL greats such as "Mean" Joe Green (Temple Dunbar), Otis Taylor (Houston Worthing), Dick "Night Train" Lane (Austin Anderson), Ken Houston (Lufkin Dunbar), and Bubba Smith (Beaumont Charlton-Pollard). Thursday Night Lights tells the inspiring, largely unknown story of African American high school football in Texas. Drawing on interviews, newspaper stories, and memorabilia, Michael Hurd introduces the players, coaches, schools, and towns where African Americans built powerhouse football programs under the PVIL leadership. He covers fifty years (1920-1970) of high school football history, including championship seasons and legendary rivalries such as the annual Turkey Day Classic game between Houston schools Jack Yates and Phillis Wheatley, which drew standing-room-only crowds of up to 40,000, making it the largest prep sports event in postwar America. In telling this story, Hurd explains why the PVIL was necessary, traces its development, and shows how football offered a potent source of pride and ambition in the black community, helping black kids succeed both athletically and educationally in a racist society.
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Publisher
University of Texas Press
ISBN-10
1477310347
ISBN-13
9781477310342
eBay Product ID (ePID)
237053983
Product Key Features
Book Title
Thursday Night Lights : the Story of Black High School Football in Texas
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
General, Sociology of Sports, Physical Education, Football, United States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, NM, Ok, Tx), Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Education, Sports & Recreation, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
260 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
20 oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Gv959.52.T4h87 2017
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Hurd's book carefully proves howĶfootball became a potent source of pride and ambition in the black community, helping black students succeed both athletically and educationally in a racist society., Though this book is long overdue, it is also right on time. We are currently having a collective cultural discussion about whose history gets told, how we choose whose stories matter, and which historical characters get cast, quite literally, in stone or metal to be celebrated for years to come. Hurd shows that the stories we tell ourselves about the history of football in Texas are woefully incomplete., Hurd's work should prove essential to those interested in examining the racial politics of sports at the high school level, college recruitment, and desegregation., Thursday Night Lights clearly succeeds in reviving the memory of black high school football in Texas and honoring its legacy., [Hurd has] seen a lot. And he understands the connections between sports, especially football, and other, often riven cultural expressions of our state., In America's current Colin Kaepernick-inspired moment, with sports once again taking on a conspicuous role in debates about black citizenship and the persistence of white racism, this book is especially timely and important.
Table of Content
Introduction1. The PVIL: Emerging from the Shadows2. Night Train, Choo-Choo, and Ridin' the Yella Dawg!3. Learning and Teaching the Game4. Gold in the Triangle5. Yates versus Wheatley6. Integration: The Good, the Bad, the EndAcknowledgmentsAppendixes PVIL Football State Champions PVIL MilestonesSelect BibliographyIndex
Copyright Date
2017
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2017-012988
Dewey Decimal
796.33209764
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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