Taboo : why black athletes dominate sports and why we are afraid to talk about it / Jon Entine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Entine, Jon.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Athletes, Black.

Black people--Race identity.

Black people.

Physical Description:

387 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : PublicAffairs, 2000.

Summary:

Drawing on the latest scientific research, and addressing all the major sports of North America, award-winning journalist Jon Entine persuasively shows why biology and ancestry are significant components of the stunning ascension of black athletes. Charts throughout.

Contents:

Part I The Taboo

1. Breaking the Taboo on Race and Sports 3

2. The Education of Sir Roger 11

Part II The Evidence

3. By the Numbers 17

4. The Most Level Playing Field 29

5. Nature's Experiment: The "Kenyan Miracle" 43

Part III History of Race Science and Sports

6. "More Brains or More ..." 71

7. Evolution (of Great Athletes) 81

8. Race Without Color: The History of Human Differences 96

9. The Origins of Race Science 117

Part IV The Segregation and Integration of Sports

10. The Superiority of White Athletes 137

11. Jack Johnson in the Ring Against Jim Crow 151

12. American Eugenics 161

13. Jesse Owens and the German Race 172

14. A Knockout Blow to Race Science 188

15. The "Scheming, Flashy Trickiness" of Jews 198

Part V Nature of Nurture?

16. The Integration of Sports 207

17. The Sixties 218

18. Sports and IQ 232

19. Winning the Genetic Lottery 246

20. The Environmentalist Case Against Innate Black Superiority in Sports 272

Part VI What About Women?

21. The Superiority of White Female Athletes 295

22. East Germany's Sports Machine 305

23. The Renaissance of the Black Female Athlete 317

Part VII Final Thoughts

24. A Genteel Way to Say "Nigger"? 331.

ISBN:

1891620398

OCLC:

42021494