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African American Icons of Sport: Triumph, Courage, and Excellence (Greenwood Icons)

By Matthew C. Whitaker

Book information

Publisher
Greenwood
Year
2008
ISBN
0313340285, 9780313340284
LCC
GV697.A1 A353 2008
Open Library ID
OL18027900M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3662779 bytes)
Pages
336\332
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This title offers an examination of African Americans in sports, from a variety of perspectives and through a lively range of rhetoric styles, and illuminates the history of highly successful and influential individuals, athletes and teams who have transcended mere celebrity to come to represent a given Zeitgeist to a sizable part of the world. It also explores the history and lives of complex, multi-layered personages and groups. Finally, it examines the extent to which modern mass media and popular culture have contributed greatly to the rise, and sometimes fall, of the these powerful symbols of athletic, individual, and group excellence.

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