Passing the Baton : Black Women Track Stars and American Identity /
"After World War II, the United States used international sport to promote democratic values and its image of an ideal citizen. But African American women excelling in track and field upset such notions. Cat M. Ariail examines how athletes such as Alice Coachman, Mae Faggs, and Wilma Rudolph fo...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2020]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Raising the bar : Alice Coachman and the boundaries of postwar American identity, 1946-1948
- Sprints of citizenship : identity politics and black women's athleticism, 1951-1952
- Passing the baton toward belonging : Mae Faggs and the making of the Americanness of black American track women, 1954-1956
- Winning as American women : the heteronormativity of black women athletic heroines, 1958-1960
- "Olympian quintessence" : Wilma Rudolph, athletic femininity, and American iconicity, 1960-1962
- Conclusion. The precarity of the baton pass : race, gender, and the enduring barriers to American belonging.