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Out of the shadows : a biographical history of African American athletes / edited by David K. Wiggins.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American athletes--Biography.
- African American athletes.
- African American athletes--Portraits.
- African American athletes--History.
- Sports--United States--History.
- Sports.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (474 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- David K. Wiggins, a leading authority on African American sports, is a professor and director of the School of Recreation, Health, and Tourism at George Mason University. He is the editor of a number of books in the field, including The Unlevel Playing Field and Sport and the Color Line, both edited with Patrick Miller, and is the author of Glory Bound: Black Athletes in a White World.
- Contents:
- Jimmy Winkfield : the "Black maestro" of the racetrack / Susan Hamburger
- Marshall "Major" Taylor : the fastest bicycle rider in the world / Andrew Ritchie
- The strange career of William Henry Lewis / Gregory Bond
- Jack Johnson and the quest for racial respect / Gerald R. Gems
- Ora Washington : the first Black female athletic star / Pamela Grundy
- Satchel Paige's struggle for selfhood in the era of Jim Crow / Donald Spivey
- Jesse Owens : leading man in modern American tales of racial progress and limits / Mark Dyreson
- Joe Louis, boxing, and American culture / Anthony O. Edmonds
- Alice Coachman : quiet champion of the 1940's / Jennifer H. Lansbury
- Jackie Robinson : racial pioneer and athlete extraordinaire in an era of change / Michael E. Lomax
- "Jackie Robinson without the charm" : the challenges of being Althea Gibson / Mary Jo Festle
- Wilma Rudolph : the making of an Olympic icon / Wayne Wilson
- Bill Russell : pioneer and champion of the sixties / Maureen M. Smith
- Jim Brown : superlative athlete, screen star, social activist / J. Thomas Jable
- Muhammad Ali : flawed rebel with a cause / Gerald Early
- "The quiet militant" : Arthur Ashe and Black athletic activism / Damion Thomas
- Bound by blackness or above it? Michael Jordan and the paradoxes of post-civil rights American race relations / Douglas Hartmann
- "Race," family, and nation : the significance of Tiger Woods in American culture / S.W. Pope
- "Ghetto Cinderellas" : Venus and Serena Williams and the discourse of racism / R. Pierre Rodgers and Ellen B. Drogin Rodgers.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-61075-295-3
- OCLC:
- 606369294
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