Out of the shadows : a biographical history of African American athletes
Record details
- ISBN: 1610752953
- ISBN: 9781610752954
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xii, 459 pages) : illustrations
remote - Publisher: Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2006.
Content descriptions
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. |
Restrictions on Access Note: | Restrictions unspecified NLC staff and students only. |
Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. |
System Details Note: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 |
Language Note: | English. |
Action Note: | digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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Subject: | Multi-User Sports -- United States -- History African American athletes -- History African American athletes -- Portraits African American athletes -- Biography |
Genre: | Electronic books. Biographies. History. Portraits. |