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Spectacular Leap : Black Women Athletes in Twentieth-Century America /
"When high jumper Alice Coachman won the high jump title at the 1941 national championships with'a spectacular leap, 'African American women had been participating in competitive sport for close to twenty-five years. Yet it would be another twenty years before they would experience so...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Fayetteville :
The University of Arkansas Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Queen of the courts: Ora Washington and the emergence of America's first black female sport celebrity
- "The Tuskegee flash": Alice Coachman and the challenges of 1940s U.S. women's track and field
- "A nationwide community project": Althea Gibson, class, and the racial politics of 1950s black tennis
- "Foxes, not oxes": Wilma Rudolph and the de-marginalization of American women's track and field
- "The Swiftie from Tennessee State": Wyomia Tyus and the racial reality of black women track athletes in the 1960s and 1970s
- "A Jackie of all trades": Jackie Joyner-Kersee and the challenges of being the world's greatest female athlete
- Performance-enhanced athletes and "ghetto Cinderellas": black women athletes enter the twenty-first century.