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Passing the baton : Black women track stars and American identity / Cat M. Ariail.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ariail, Cat M., 1987- author.
- Series:
- Sport and society.
- Illinois scholarship online.
- Sport and society
- Illinois scholarship online
- Standardized Title:
- Sprints of citizenship.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American women track and field athletes--History--20th century.
- African American women track and field athletes.
- Track and field for women--United States--History--20th century.
- Track and field for women.
- Discrimination in sports--United States--History--20th century.
- Discrimination in sports.
- United States--Race relations--History--20th century.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 online resource.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- In the post-World War II period, nations and territories used international sport to codify and communicate their ideal citizenries. For the United States, black women who competed in track and field complicated these efforts. This book analyzes the ideological influence of black women track stars, examining how they destabilized dominant ideas about race, gender, sexuality, and national identity.
- Contents:
- Raising the bar : Alice Coachman and the boundaries of postwar American identity, 1946-1948
- Sprints of citizenship : identity politics and black women's athleticism, 1951-1952
- Passing the baton toward belonging : Mae Faggs and the making of the Americanness of black American track women, 1954-1956
- Winning as American women : the heteronormativity of black women athletic heroines, 1958-1960
- "Olympian quintessence" : Wilma Rudolph, athletic femininity, and American iconicity, 1960-1962
- Conclusion. The precarity of the baton pass : race, gender, and the enduring barriers to American belonging.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 10, 2021).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780252043482
- 0252043480
- OCLC:
- 1228504994
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