African American icons of sport : triumph, courage, and excellence
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
African American icons of sport : triumph, courage, and excellence
(Greenwood icons)
Greenwood Press, 2008
Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. [279]-286
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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.
Table of Contents
List of Photos Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Muhammad Ali 2. Arthur Ashe 3. Charles Barkley 4. Barry Bonds 5. Jim Brown 6. Wilt Chamberlain 7. George Foreman 8. Althea Gibson 9. Harlem Globetrotters 10. Derrick Derek Jeter 11. Earvin Magic Johnson 12. Jack Johnson 13. Michael Jordan 14. Florence Griffin Joyner 15. Joe Louis 16. Negro Baseball Leagues 17. Shaquille ONeal 18. Jessie Owens 19. Bill Pickett 20. Eddie Robinson 21. Wilma Rudolph 22. Tommie Smith and John Carlos 23. Venus and Serena Williams 24. Tiger Woods About the Editor and Contributors Selected Bibliography Index
by "Nielsen BookData"