Full 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.
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
