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This two-volume set features 400 articles on African-Americans in sports, including biographical entries as well as entries on events, tournaments, leagues, clu
African Americans in Sports
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Pages: 288
Authors: Gary Alan Sailes
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Sixteen contributions cover topics such as African American culture and sport, the representation of O.J. Simpson, the impact of Tiger Woods' success, a physiol
Separate Games
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Pages: 289
Authors: David K. Wiggins
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-11-01 - Publisher: University of Arkansas Press

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The hardening of racial lines during the first half of the twentieth century eliminated almost all African Americans from white organized sports, forcing black
Taboo
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-08-05 - Publisher: PublicAffairs

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In virtually every sport in which they are given opportunity to compete, people of African descent dominate. East Africans own every distance running record. Pr
More Than a Game
Language: en
Pages: 313
Authors: David K. Wiggins
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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