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African Americans have made substantial contributions to the sporting world, and vice versa. This wide-ranging collection of new essays explores the inextricabl
More Than a Game
Language: en
Pages: 313
Authors: David K. Wiggins
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-01 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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More than a Game discusses how African American men and women sought to participate in sport and what that participation meant to them, the African American com
African American Lives
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Pages: 1055
Authors: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-04-29 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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African American Lives offers up-to-date, authoritative biographies of some 600 noteworthy African Americans. These 1,000-3,000 word biographies, selected from
Out of the Shadows
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Authors: David K. Wiggins
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-02-01 - Publisher: University of Arkansas Press

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The original essays in this comprehensive collection examine the lives and sports of famous and not-so-famous African American male and female athletes from the
Darwin's Athletes
Language: en
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Authors: John Hoberman
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-11-03 - Publisher: HMH

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A “provocative, disturbing, important” look at how society’s obsession with athletic achievement undermines African Americans (The New York Times). Very f