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Title:

Out of the shadows : a biographical history of African American athletes / edited by David K. Wiggins.

Publisher:

University of Arkansas Press,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

xii, 459 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

African American athletes--Biography.
African American athletes--Portraits.
African American athletes--History.
Sports--United States--History.
Sportifs noirs américains--Biographies.
Sportifs noirs américains--Histoire.
Sports--États-Unis--Histoire.

Other Authors:

Wiggins, David Kenneth, 1951-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-438) and index.

Contents:

Jackie Robinson : racial pioneer and athlete extraordinaire in an era of change / 10. Striving for athletic success in a Jim Crow society -- 1. Jimmy Winkfield : the "Black maestro" of the racetrack / Michael E. Lomax -- 2. Marshall "Major" Taylor : the fastest bicycle rider in the world / Andrew Ritchie -- 3. The strange career of William Henry Lewis / Gregory Bond -- 4. Jack Johnson and the quest for racial respect / Gerald R. Gems -- 2. Fashioning a world of sport behind segregated walls and on the international stage -- 5. Ora Washington : the first Black female athletic star / Pamela Grundy -- 6. Satchel Paige's struggle for selfhood in the era of Jim Crow / Donald Spivey -- 7. Jesse Owens : leading man in modern American tales of racial progress and limits / Mark Dyreson -- 8. Joe Louis, boxing, and American culture / Anthony O. Edmonds -- 9. Alice Coachman : quiet champion of the 1940s / Jennifer H. Lansbury -- 10. Jackie Robinson : racial pioneer and athlete extraordinaire in an era of change / Michael E. Lomax --
and Index. 11. "Jackie Robinson without the charm" : the challenges of being Althea Gibson / Ellen B. Drogin Rodgers -- 12. Wilma Rudolph : the making of an Olympic icon / Wayne Wilson -- 13. Bill Russell : pioneer and champion of the sixties / Maureen M. Smith -- 14. Jim Brown : superlative athlete, screen star, social activist / J. Thomas Jable -- 15. Muhammad Ali : flawed rebel with a cause / Gerald Early -- 16. "The quiet militant" : Arthur Ashe and Black athletic activism / Damion Thomas -- 4. Race, sport, and celebrity culture -- 17. Bound by blackness or above it? Michael Jordan and the paradoxes of post-civil rights American race relations / Douglas Hartmann -- 18. "Race," family, and nation : the significance of Tiger Woods in American culture / S.W. Pope -- 19. "Ghetto Cinderellas" : Venus and Serena Williams and the discourse of racism / R. Pierre Rodgers and Ellen B. Drogin Rodgers -- Notes -- Bibliographical note -- Contributors -- Index.

ISBN:

9781557288769
1557288763
9781557288264 (casebound : alk. paper)
1557288267 (casebound : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2006019218

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PHAX277 -- Graceland University - Frederick Madison Smith Library (Lamoni)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)