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Author Hoberman, John M. (John Milton), 1944-

Title Darwin's athletes : how sport has damaged Black America and preserved the myth of race / John Hoberman.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1997.
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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  796.089 H682D    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  796.089 H682D c.2  Check Shelf
Description xxvi, 341 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-319) and index.
Contents The African-American sports fixation -- Jackie Robinson's sad song: the resegregation of American sport -- Joe Louis meets Albert Einstein: the athleticizing of the black mind -- The suppression of the black male action figure -- "Writin' is fightin'": sport and the black intellectuals -- Wonders out of Africa -- The world of colonial sport -- The new multiracial world order -- The fastest white man in the world -- Imagining the black organism -- The Negro as a defective type -- African-American responses to racial biology -- Black "hardiness" and the origins of medical racism -- Theories of racial athletic aptitude -- Athleticizing the black criminal -- The fear of racial biology.
Subject African American athletes -- Public opinion.
Public opinion -- United States.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in sports.
African Americans -- Attitudes.
United States -- Race relations.
ISBN 0395822912
9780395822913
0395822920
9780395822920
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