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Author : Amy Bass
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Genre : Political Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 723/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis NOT THE TRIUMPH BUT THE STRUGGLE by : Amy Bass
Download or read book NOT THE TRIUMPH BUT THE STRUGGLE written by Amy Bass. This book was released on . Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Luther King Jr., uprisings in American cities, student protests around the world, the rise of the Black Power movement, and decolonization and apartheid in Africa.".
Author : Amy Bass
Release : 2004-03
Genre : Political Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 458/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Not the Triumph But the Struggle by : Amy Bass
Download or read book Not the Triumph But the Struggle written by Amy Bass. This book was released on 2004-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary: "In this far-reaching account, Amy Bass offers nothing less than a history of the black athlete. Beginning with the racial eugenics discussions of the early twentieth century and their continuing reverberations in popular perceptions of black physical abilities, Bass explores ongoing African American attempts to challenge these stereotypes. Although Tommie Smith and John Carlos were reviled by Olympic officials for their demonstration, Bass traces how their protest has come to be the defining image of the 1968 Games, with lingering effects in the sports world and on American popular culture generally."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Michael E. Lomax
Release : 2008
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 142/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Sports and the Racial Divide by : Michael E. Lomax
Download or read book Sports and the Racial Divide written by Michael E. Lomax. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With essays by Ron Briley, Michael Ezra, Sarah K. Fields, Billy Hawkins, Jorge Iber, Kurt Kemper, Michael E. Lomax, Samuel O. Regalado, Richard Santillan, and Maureen Smith This anthology explores the intersection of race, ethnicity, and sports and analyzes the forces that shaped the African American and Latino sports experience in post-World War II America. Contributors reveal that sports often reinforced dominant ideas about race and racial supremacy but that at other times sports became a platform for addressing racial and social injustices. The African American sports experience represented the continuation of the ideas of Black Nationalism--racial solidarity, black empowerment, and a determination to fight against white racism. Three of the essayists discuss the protest at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City. In football, baseball, basketball, boxing, and track and field, African American athletes moved toward a position of group strength, establishing their own values and simultaneously rejecting the cultural norms of whites. Among Latinos, athletic achievement inspired community celebrations and became a way to express pride in ethnic and religious heritages as well as a diversion from the work week. Sports was a means by which leadership and survival tactics were developed and used in the political arena and in the fight for justice.
Author : Kristine Toohey
Release : 2007-11-08
Genre : Sports & Recreation
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 559/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Olympic Games by : Kristine Toohey
Download or read book The Olympic Games written by Kristine Toohey. This book was released on 2007-11-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2nd edition of a highly successful book (published in 2000) provides a comprehensive, critical analysis of the Olympic Games using a multi-disciplinary social science approach. This revised edition contains much new data relating to the Sydney 2000 Games and their aftermath; and preparations for Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008 Games. The book is broad-ranging and independent in its coverage, and includes the use of drugs, sex testing, accusations of power abuse among members of the IOC, the Games as a stage for political protest, media-related controversies, economic costs and benefits of the Games and historical conflicts between organizers and host communities.
Author : Tim Daggett
Release : 1992
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 773/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Dare to Dream by : Tim Daggett
Download or read book Dare to Dream written by Tim Daggett. This book was released on 1992. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1984, Tim Daggett clinched the first-ever Gold Medal for the U.S. Men's Gymnastics team. Then, in 1987, he fell 15 feet from the high bar, rupturing a disc. But he fought his way back to contend in the World Championships, only to suffer an even more devastating injury. Facing possible leg amputation, he refused to give up. 8-page photo insert. Author to be a commentator at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona.
