Tag: David Faflik
Bostonian racism in sports and in schools, now and then: The Black Box of the Red Sox
Situated at the intersection of US cultural and social history, David Faflik’s Segregation Games: Boston, Busing, and the Making of Red Sox Nation (University of Massachusetts Press) examines the surprising ties in 1970s Boston between the racial segregation of the city’s schools and the racial controversies expressed on and off the field of “Red Sox Nation.” Our reviewer Duncan Jamieson has some reservations about Faflik’s use of the words ‘play’ and ‘game’, but otherwise finds the book well worth a careful reading.
