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Not the Triumph But the Struggle : The 1968 Olympics and the Making of the Black Athlete /

"Jesse Owens. Muhammad Ali. Michael Jordan. Tiger Woods. All are iconic black athletes, as are Tommie Smith and John Carlos, the African American track and field medalists who raised black-gloved fists on the victory dais at the Mexico City Olympics and brought the roiling American racial polit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bass, Amy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The race between politics and sport
  • What is this "black" in Black athlete?
  • An Olympic challenge : preparing for the "problem games"
  • The power of protest and boycott : the New York Athletic Club and the question of the South African springboks
  • Tribulations and the trials : Black consciousness and the collective body
  • "That's my flag"
  • Whose broad stripes and bright stars?