Cat M Ariail

Passing the Baton

Black Women Track Stars and American Identity

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Miami, 2018, titled Sprints of citizenship: black women track stars and the making of modern citizenship in the United States and Jamaica, 1946-1964.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Powerhouse Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 158mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780252085383
• ISBN-10: 0252085388
• Artikelnr.: 58773049

Autorenporträt

Cat M. Ariail

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Raising the Bar: Alice Coachman and the Boundaries of Postwar
American Identity, 1946-1948
Chapter 2. Sprints of Citizenship: Identity Politics and Black Women's
Athleticism, 1951-1952
Chapter 3. Passing the Baton Toward Belonging: Mae Faggs and the Making of
the Americanness of Black American Track Women, 1954-1956
Chapter 4. Winning as American Women: The Heteronormativity of Black Women
Athletic Heroines, 1958-1960
Chapter 5. "Olympian Quintessence": Wilma Rudolph, Athletic Femininity, and
American Iconicity, 1960-1962
Conclusion. The Precarity of the Baton Pass: Race, Gender, and the Enduring
Barriers to American Belonging
Notes
Bibliography
Index