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African American Icons of Sport: Triumph, Courage, and Excellence

African American Icons of Sport: Triumph, Courage, and Excellence

Whitaker, Matthew

Hardcover

Series: Greenwood Icons

FictionAthletesBlack American Studies

ISBN10: 0313340285
ISBN13: 9780313340284
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: May 1 2008
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.90
Height: 1.08 Width: 7.25 Depth: 10.21
Language: English
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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