Out of the shadows a biographical history of African American athletes

Wiggins, David Kenneth, 1951- (Added Author).

Summary: The original essays in this collection examine the lives and sports of famous and not-so- famous African American men and women athletes from the nineteenth century to today. Here are twenty biographies that furnish perspectives on the changing status of these athletes and how the changes mirrored the transformation of sport, American society, and civil rights legislation. Out of the Shadows shows us athletes struggling to make it in a Jim Crow society--Jimmy Winkfield in horse racing, Marshall Taylor in bicycling, William Henry Lewis in football, and Jack Johnson--and those achieving success on an international stage while suffering segregation at home--Ora Washington (tennis), Satchel Paige, Jesse Owens, Joe Louis, Alice Coachman (track and field), and Jackie Robinson. In the twentieth century athletes saw opportunities to fight for civil rights through their performances as was the case with Althea Gibson (tennis), Wilma Rudolph, Bill Russell, Jim Brown, Muhammad Ali, and Arthur Ashe. Today's successful African American athletes, such as Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, and Venus and Serena Williams, deal with issues of race and celebrity culture. --From publisher's description.

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ISBN: 1610752953
ISBN: 9781610752954
ISBN: 9781557288769
ISBN: 1557288763
ISBN: 9781557288264 (casebound : alk. paper)
ISBN: 1557288267 (casebound : alk. paper)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 459 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2006.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-438) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	3. The fight for civil rights through athletic performance, persuasion, and protest -- 11. "Jackie Robinson without the charm" : the challenges of being Althea Gibson / Mary Jo Festle -- 12. Wilma Rudolph : the making of an Olympic icon / Wayne Wilson -- 13. Bill Russell : pioneer and champion of the sixties / Maureen M. Smith -- 14. Jim Brown : superlative athlete, screen star, social activist / J. Thomas Jable -- 15. Muhammad Ali : flawed rebel with a cause / Gerald Early -- 16. "The quiet militant" : Arthur Ashe and Black athletic activism / Damion Thomas -- 4. Race, sport, and celebrity culture -- 17. Bound by blackness or above it? Michael Jordan and the paradoxes of post-civil rights American race relations / Douglas Hartmann -- 18. "Race," family, and nation : the significance of Tiger Woods in American culture / S.W. Pope -- 19. "Ghetto Cinderellas" : Venus and Serena Williams and the discourse of racism / R. Pierre Rodgers and Ellen B. Drogin Rodgers -- Notes -- Bibliographical note -- Contributors -- Index.
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