| Description |
xii, 459 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-438) and index. |
| Contents |
Preface -- I. Striving for athletic success in a Jim Crow society -- 1. Jimmy Winkfield : the "Black maestro" of the racetrack / Susan Hamburger -- 2. Marshall "Major" Taylor : the fastest bicycle rider in the world / Andrew Ritchie -- 3. The strange career of William Henry Lewis / Gregory Bond -- 4. Jack Johnson and the quest for racial respect / Gerald R. Gems -- II. Fashioning a world of sport behind segregated walls and on the international stage -- 5. Ora Washington : the first Black female athletic star / Pamela Grundy -- 6. Satchel Paige's struggle for selfhood in the era of Jim Crow / Donald Spivey -- 7. Jesse Owens : leading man in modern American tales of racial progress and limits / Mark Dyreson -- 8. Joe Louis, boxing, and American culture / Anthony O. Edmonds -- 9. Alice Coachman : quiet champion of the 1940s / Jennifer H. Lansbury -- 10. Jackie Robinson : racial pioneer and athlete extraordinaire in an era of change / Michael E. Lomax. |
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III. The fight for civil rights through athletic performance, persuasion, and protest -- 11. "Jackie Robinson without the charm" : the challenges of being Althea Gibson / Mary Jo Festle -- 12. Wilma Rudolph : the making of an Olympic icon / Wayne Wilson -- 13. Bill Russell : pioneer and champion of the sixties / Maureen M. Smith -- 14. Jim Brown : superlative athlete, screen star, social activist / J. Thomas Jable -- 15. Muhammad Ali : flawed rebel with a cause / Gerald Early -- 16. "The quiet militant" : Arthur Ashe and Black athletic activism / Damion Thomas -- 4. Race, sport, and celebrity culture -- 17. Bound by blackness or above it? Michael Jordan and the paradoxes of post-civil rights American race relations / Douglas Hartmann -- 18. "Race," family, and nation : the significance of Tiger Woods in American culture / S.W. Pope -- 19. "Ghetto Cinderellas" : Venus and Serena Williams and the discourse of racism / R. Pierre Rodgers and Ellen B. Drogin Rodgers -- Notes -- Bibliographical note -- Contributors -- Index. |
| Subject |
African American athletes -- Biography.
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African American athletes -- Portraits.
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African American athletes -- History.
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Sports -- United States -- History.
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| Added Author |
Wiggins, David Kenneth, 1951-
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| ISBN |
1557288267 (casebound : alk. paper) |
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9781557288264 (casebound : alk. paper) |
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1557288763 |
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9781557288769 |
| Standard No. |
YDXCP 2436767 |
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AU@ 000040430249 |
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NZ1 10875347 |
| Sudoc No. |
HI.F 3/178-8:O 976/2006 ardocs |
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