Basketball as a Stage for the “New Negro” : The Harlem Renaissance and the Harlem Globetrotters

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  • 「ニュー・ニグロ」のステージとしてのバスケットボール：ハーレム・ルネッサンスとハーレム・グローブトロッターズ

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Abstract 　In this paper, I probe the cultural adjacency between theater, bodily performance, and basketball that emerged in the Harlem Renaissance era, a golden age in African American culture lasting roughly from the 1910s through the mid-1930s. I focus on the story of a black basketball team named after Harlem: the Harlem Globetrotters (The Globetrotters), an all-black American basketball team founded in Chicago that would eventually become widely known for its combination of athleticism and theatrics. The Globetrotters offer useful insight into the Harlem Renaissance phenomenon, demonstrating that it was not confined to New York. Reproducing or strategically mimicking the stereotypical minstrel figure of the “Old Negro,” the Harlem lobetrotters recreated basketball into a “New Negro”sport spectacle.

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