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how sport has damaged black America and preserved the myth of race

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An edition of Darwin's athletes (1997)

Darwin's athletes

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Darwin's Athletes zeroes in on our society's fixation on black athletic achievement. John Hoberman compellingly argues that this obsession - one shared by both blacks and whites in the media, in corporate America, and even by athletes themselves - has come to play a disastrous role in African-American life and a troubling role in our country's race relations.

The sports fixation originates in the painful century-long exclusion of blacks from every other path to high achievement. The scarcity of other kinds of "race heroes" has conferred messianic status on the most popular black athletes, fostering a delusion of integration while contributing to deep social divisions. Ironically, Hoberman argues, the decline of European empires and the rise of the black athlete helped to preserve rather than undermine the inferior status of nonwhites.

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Houghton Mifflin Co, Houghton Mifflin Co.
Language
English
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341

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Public opinion, Afro-Americans, Race relations, Attitudes, Stereotype (Psychology) in sports, Afro-American athletes, African American athletes, African Americans, Public opinion, united states, African americans, social conditions, United states, race relations, Stereotypes (Social psychology) in sports
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Darwin's athletes: how sport has damaged black America and preserved the myth of race
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Includes bibliographical references (p. ).

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Dewey Decimal Class
796/.089/96073
Library of Congress
GV583, GV583 .H6, GV583 .H6 1997

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Pagination
p. cm
Number of pages
341

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OL18169008M
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darwinsathletesh0000hobe
ISBN 10
0395822920
LCCN
96036170
OCLC/WorldCat
35298593
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2037938
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392429

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