In this episode, Emma and Garrett talk to Craig Gill about the depiction of African American golf caddies in the 2000 film The Legend of Bagger Vance and the history of golf in the United States.
Additional readings:
- Pinehurst Sportscope Short Documentary (1938:) https://archive.org/details/41324Pinehurst
- Lane Demas, Game of Privilege: An African American History of Golf, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017)
- Farrell Evans, “The Black Caddies of Augusta National”, The National, http://www.amtrakthenational.com/black-caddies-augusta-national
- Scott E. Giltner, Hunting and Fishing in the New South: Black Labor and White Leisure after the Civil War, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008)
Produced by Gabe Moss, Emma Rothberg, and Garrett Wright
Edited by Ashley Curry
All opinions are the speakers’ own, and do not represent the official views of UNC or the Department of History.