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Author Weisbord, Robert G., author.

Title Racism and the Olympics / Robert G. Weisbord.

Publication Info. New Brunswick, New Jersey : Transaction Publishers, [2015]

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  796.48089 W434r 2015    ---  Available
1 copy being processed for Axe Acquisitions Order.
Description xiv, 214 pages ; 23 cm
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unmediated n rdamedia
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents A case of amnesia : racism and the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics -- Jews, blacks, and the 1936 Nazi Olympics -- The 1940 winter Olympics, the games that never happened : politics, morality, and sports -- Racism and the Olympics : black protest at the 1968 Mexico City games -- Apartheid and the expulsion of South Africa from the Olympics -- U.D.I. and the expulsion of Rhodesia from the Olympic movement -- Aftermath : outlaw nations as Olympic hosts : gays and others as targets of discrimination.
Subject Olympics -- History.
Olympics -- Social aspects.
Racism in sports -- History.
Discrimination in sports -- History.
Discrimination in sports. (OCoLC)fst00895130
Olympics. (OCoLC)fst01045581
Olympics -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01045608
Racism in sports. (OCoLC)fst01086664
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9781412856683 (alk. paper)
141285668X (alk. paper)

 
    
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