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Passing the Baton: Black Women Track Stars and American Identity (Sport and Society) - Softcover

Buch 30 von 30: Sport and Society

Ariail, Cat M.

 
9780252085383: Passing the Baton: Black Women Track Stars and American Identity (Sport and Society)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0252085388 ISBN 13: 9780252085383
Verlag: UNIV OF ILLINOIS PR, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

After World War II, the United States used international sport to promote democratic values and its image of an ideal citizen. But African American women excelling in track and field upset such notions. Cat M. Ariail examines how athletes such as Alice Coachman, Mae Faggs, and Wilma Rudolph forced American sport cultures-both white and Black-to reckon with the athleticism of African American women. Marginalized still further in a low-profile sport, young Black women nonetheless bypassed barriers to represent their country. Their athletic success soon threatened postwar America's dominant ideas about race, gender, sexuality, and national identity. As Ariail shows, the wider culture defused these radical challenges by locking the athletes within roles that stressed conservative forms of femininity, blackness, and citizenship.

A rare exploration of African American women athletes and national identity, Passing the Baton reveals young Black women as active agents in the remaking of what it means to be American.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Cat M. Ariail is a lecturer in the Department of History at Middle Tennessee State University.

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Verlag
UNIV OF ILLINOIS PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0252085388
ISBN 13 
9780252085383
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
248
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
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