Sporting Justice with Miriam Wright

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English - February 18, 2024 16:00 - 26 minutes - 17.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
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Miriam Wright is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Windsor. She teaches Canadian history, and her recent work has focussed on race and sports in Canada as well as on Chinese immigration to Newfoundland and Labrador. Miriam is one of the researchers behind the award-winning Breaking the Colour Barrier: Wilfred “Boomer” Harding & the Chatham Coloured All-Stars project. Her new book, released by Wilfrid Laurier University Press in Fall 2023, is Sporting Justice: The Chatham Coloured All-Stars and Black Baseball in Southwestern Ontario, 1915-1958.
https://www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Books/S/Sporting-Justice