In Black and White : Race and Sports in America.
From the days of the Negro Leagues in baseball up to the present when collegiate basketball factories entice and then fail to educate young black men, sports in America have long served as a barometer of the country's racial climate. Just as blacks are generally absent from the upper echelons o...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
NYU Press,
1996.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Preface: Sports, Race, and Scholarship; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Realities of Racism and Discriminationin America; ONE The Roots of Racism and Discrimination in Sports; TWO Sitting in with the "Good Old Boys": Ownership; THREE The Front Office and Antidiscrimination Law; FOUR Fear of a Black Planet": The Front Office; FIVE Color-Blind Propositions: The Collegiate Ranks; SIX The White Man's Ice Is Colder, His Sugar Sweeter, His Water Wetter, His Medicine Better": Sports Agents; SEVEN The Next Millennium; NOTES; INDEX.