Better than the Best (eBook, ePUB)

Black Athletes Speak, 1920-2007
Redaktion: Walter, John C.; Iida, Malina

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

These engaging and forthright interviews bring together the life stories of thirteen black athletes who have risen to the top rank of their sport. In revealing and fascinating detail, these athletes describe how they succeeded in the face of often daunting odds, often the result of economic barriers and racist attitudes and practices.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780295801698
• Artikelnr.: 44815600

Autorenporträt

John C. Walter is professor emeritus of American ethnic studies, University of Washington. He is the author of The Harlem Fox: J. Raymond Jones and Tammamy and coeditor (with Johnnella Butler) of Transforming the Curriculum: Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies. In 1953 he came to the United States from Jamaica on a track scholarship to Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Arkansas. Malina Iida is a student at William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai'i.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Sam Lacy Sports Journalism
2. Mal Whitfield Track and Field
3. Mae Faggs Starr Track and Field
4. Don Benning, Ed.D. Wrestling
5. Lenny Wilkens Basketball
6. Ken Hudson NBA Referee
7. Arthur Ashe Jr. Tennis
8. Wyomia Tyus Track and Field
9. Alan Page, J.D. Football
10. Jennifer Johnson Paralympic Table Tennis
11. Nikki Franke, ED.D. Fencing
12. Peter Westbrook Fencing
13. Maurice Smith Martial Arts
Black Athletes Interviewed for the Blacks in Sports Oral History Project
Selected Bibliography
Index