African & African American Studies: Sports + Popular Culture
Sports + Popular Culture
This page lists selected information sources on Black Popular Culture.
Books provide information on a narrower subject area, and may only cover a specific aspect of a subject area. Some books may also provide broad surveys of a topic.
Journals include articles written on specific, narrow topics. Many articles are peer-reviewed by experts to ensure accuracy and quality of information. Search within journals to find scholarly articles.
Reference sources provide summaries of facts, definition of terms, summaries of histories, short biographies, etc., on large subject areas. They are the best place to start research, particularly for users unfamiliar with a a field of study or subject area. Most of the reference sources at LSU Libraries are accessible online, but there are many reference sources available in print in the Libraries' stacks.
The videos listed below are documentaries.
Books
- Beyond Blackface : African Americans and the Creation of American Popular Culture, 1890-1930 byISBN: 9780807878026Publication Date: 2011-07-15
- Born in a Mighty Bad Land : The Violent Man in African American Folklore and Fiction byISBN: 9780253109897Publication Date: 2003-04-03
- Forty Million Dollar Slaves : the rise, fall, and redemption of the Black athlete byISBN: 9780609601204Publication Date: 2006-07-11
- From Jim Crow to Jay-Z : Race, Rap, and the Performance of Masculinity byISBN: 9780252036620Publication Date: 2011-11-14
- The Heritage : black athletes, a divided America, and the politics of patriotism byISBN: 0807026999Publication Date: 2018-05-08
- Hollywood's African American Films : The Transition to Sound byISBN: 9780813550800Publication Date: 2011-07-27
- A People's History of Sports in the United States byISBN: 9781595581006Publication Date: 2008-09-09
- Shaping the Future of African American Film : Color-Coded Economics and the Story Behind the Numbers byISBN: 9780813562575Publication Date: 2014-04-29
Reference Sources
- Routledge Handbook of Sport, Gender and Sexuality byISBN: 9780415522533Publication Date: 2014-04-30