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Out of the Shadows : A Biographical History of African American Athletes /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Fayetteville :
University of Arkansas Press,
2006.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Jimmy Winkfield : the "Black maestro" of the racetrack / Susan Hamburger
- Marshall "Major" Taylor : the fastest bicycle rider in the world / Andrew Ritchie
- The strange career of William Henry Lewis / Gregory Bond
- Jack Johnson and the quest for racial respect / Gerald R. Gems
- Ora Washington : the first Black female athletic star / Pamela Grundy
- Satchel Paige's struggle for selfhood in the era of Jim Crow / Donald Spivey
- Jesse Owens : leading man in modern American tales of racial progress and limits / Mark Dyreson
- Joe Louis, boxing, and American culture / Anthony O. Edmonds
- Alice Coachman : quiet champion of the 1940s / Jennifer H. Lansbury
- Jackie Robinson : racial pioneer and athlete extraordinaire in an era of change / Michael E. Lomax
- "Jackie Robinson without the charm" : the challenges of being Althea Gibson / Mary Jo Festle
- Wilma Rudolph : the making of an Olympic icon / Wayne Wilson
- Bill Russell : pioneer and champion of the sixties / Maureen M. Smith
- Jim Brown : superlative athlete, screen star, social activist / J. Thomas Jable
- Muhammad Ali : flawed rebel with a cause / Gerald Early
- "The quiet militant" : Arthur Ashe and Black athletic activism / Damion Thomas
- Bound by blackness or above it? Michael Jordan and the paradoxes of post-civil rights American race relations / Douglas Hartmann
- "Race," family, and nation : the significance of Tiger Woods in American culture / S.W. Pope
- "Ghetto Cinderellas" : Venus and Serena Williams and the discourse of racism / R. Pierre Rodgers and Ellen B. Drogin Rodgers.