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Athletes, Black --- Racism in sports --- Racism --- Sports --- Discrimination in sports --- Black athletes --- Negro athletes --- E-books

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This book examines the role of race in athletic programs in the United States. Intercollegiate athletics remains a contested terrain where race and racism are critical issues often absent in the public discourse. Recently, the economic motives of intercollegiate athletic programs and academic indiscretions have unveiled behaviors that stand to tarnish the images of institutions of higher education and reinforce racial stereotypes about the intellectual inabilities of Black males. Through the lens of Critical Race Theory (CRT), this volume analyzes sport as the platform that reflects and reinforces ideas about race within American culture, as well as the platform where resistance is forged against dominant racial ideologies. .

Sociology of Sport and Leisure. --- Racism in sports --- Discrimination in sports --- Athletes, Black --- Black athletes --- Negro athletes --- Education. --- Sports --- Education, general. --- Sociological aspects. --- Sociology of sports --- Sociology --- Children --- Education, Primitive --- Education of children --- Human resource development --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- Schooling --- Students --- Youth --- Civilization --- Learning and scholarship --- Mental discipline --- Schools --- Teaching --- Training --- Education --- Sports-Sociological aspects. --- Sports—Sociological aspects. --- United States --- Race relations. --- Race question

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Bill Russell was not the first African American to play professional basketball, but he was its first black superstar. From the moment he stepped onto the court of the Boston Garden in 1956, Russell began to transform the sport in a fundamental way, making him, more than any of his contemporaries, the Jackie Robinson of basketball. In King of the Court, Aram Goudsouzian provides a vivid and engrossing chronicle of the life and career of this brilliant champion and courageous racial pioneer. Russell's leaping, wide-ranging defense altered the game's texture. His teams provided models of racial integration in the 1950s and 1960s, and, in 1966, he became the first black coach of any major professional team sport. Yet, like no athlete before him, Russell challenged the politics of sport. Instead of displaying appreciative deference, he decried racist institutions, embraced his African roots, and challenged the nonviolent tenets of the civil rights movement. This beautifully written book-sophisticated, nuanced, and insightful-reveals a singular individual who expressed the dreams of Martin Luther King Jr. while echoing the warnings of Malcolm X.

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This is the first book-length study to address sport's role in 'the making of race', the place of sport within black diasporic struggles for freedom and equality, and the contested location of sport in relation to the politics of recognition within contemporary western multicultural societies. Race, Sport and Politics shows that over the past century sport has occupied a dominant position within Western culture in producing ideas of racial difference and alterity while providing a powerful and public modality for forms of black cultural resistance.

Sociology of minorities --- Sociology of sport --- Sports --- Racism in sports --- Discrimination in sports. --- Athletes, Black --- Race relations. --- African diaspora. --- Racisme dans les sports --- Discrimination dans les sports --- Sportifs noirs --- Relations raciales --- Africains --- Social aspects. --- Political aspects. --- Aspect social --- Aspect politique --- Discrimination in sports --- Race relations --- African diaspora --- Black diaspora --- Diaspora, African --- Human geography --- Africans --- Integration, Racial --- Race problems --- Race question --- Relations, Race --- Ethnology --- Social problems --- Sociology --- Ethnic relations --- Minorities --- Racism --- Black athletes --- Negro athletes --- Integration in sports --- Race discrimination in sports --- Racial integration in sports --- Segregation in sports --- Field sports --- Pastimes --- Recreations --- Recreation --- Athletics --- Games --- Outdoor life --- Physical education and training --- Social aspects --- Political aspects --- Migrations --- Transatlantic slave trade

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In his day, Jack Johnson-born in Texas, the son of former slaves-was the most famous black man on the planet. As the first African American World Heavyweight Champion (1908-1915), he publicly challenged white supremacy at home and abroad, enjoying the same audacious lifestyle of conspicuous consumption, masculine bravado, and interracial love wherever he traveled. Jack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner provides the first in-depth exploration of Johnson's battles against the color line in places as far-flung as Sydney, London, Cape Town, Paris, Havana, and Mexico City. In relating this dramatic story, Theresa Runstedtler constructs a global history of race, gender, and empire in the early twentieth century.

Boxers (Sports) --- African American boxers --- Boxing --- Racism in sports. --- Sports --- Discrimination in sports --- Afro-American boxers --- Boxers, African American --- History. --- Johnson, Jack, --- Johnson, John Arthur, --- Johnson, Arthur, --- United States --- Race relations --- Johnson, John Arthur --- 20th century. --- american history. --- black athletes. --- cape town. --- engaging. --- famous african americans. --- famous boxers. --- fighting. --- fights. --- gender roles. --- global color line. --- havana. --- history. --- human condition. --- interracial love. --- jack johnson. --- london. --- masculinity. --- mexico city. --- nonfiction. --- paris. --- race historians. --- racism. --- rebel sojourner. --- retrospective. --- slave descendants. --- social history. --- sports biographies. --- sports historians. --- sydney. --- texas. --- white supremacy. --- world heavyweight champion.