Open Access Edition of Game of Privilege: An African American History of Golf by Lane Demas

FAIN: DR-290429-23

University of North Carolina Press, Inc. (Chapel Hill, NC 27515-2288)
Mark Simpson-Vos (Project Director: July 2022 to September 2023)

This project will publish the book Game of Privilege: An African American History of Golf, written by NEH Fellow Lane Demas (Federal Award Identification Number FT-61703-14), in an electronic open access format under a Creative Commons license, making it available for free download and distribution. The author will be paid a royalty of at least $500 upon release of the open access ebook.

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Single Publication (Open Access eBook or Collection)
Publication Type: Single Publication
Title: Game of Privilege: An African American History of Golf
Year: 2017
ISBN: 9781469634234
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Author: Lane Demas
Abstract: 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). From George F. Grant’s invention of the golf tee in 1899 to the dominance of superstar Tiger Woods in the 1990s, this revelatory and comprehensive work challenges stereotypes and indeed the fundamental story of race and golf in American culture.
Primary URL: https://worldcat.org/title/1032362788
Primary URL Description: Worldcat
Secondary URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469634234_demas
Secondary URL Description: JSTOR
URL 3: https://www.amazon.com/Game-Privilege-African-American-Franklin-ebook/dp/B06Y3PTXGN/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1502382294&sr=1-1&keywords=game+of+privilege
URL 3 Description: Kindle
Type: Single author monograph

Prizes

Herbert Warren Wind Book Award
Date: 1/1/2017
Organization: United States Golf Association Museum

Book Award
Date: 1/1/2018
Organization: North American Society for Sport History

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