African American icons of sport
Subtitle: triumph, courage, and excellence
By: edited by Matthew C. Whitaker.
Contributors: Whitaker, Matthew C.
Series: Greenwood icons
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780313340284
Subjects: African American athletes -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: This volume offers an examination of African Americans in sports, from a variety of perspectives. It explores the history and lives of complex, multi-layered personages and groups. Also examined is the extent to which modern mass media and popular culture have contributed greatly to the rise, and sometimes fall, of these powerful symbols of athletic, individual, and group excellence.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Muhammad Ali[a1]; title: Arthur Ashe; title: Charles Barkley; title: Barry Bonds; title: Jim Brown; title: Wilt Chamberlain; title: George Foreman; title: Althea Gibson; title: Harlem Globetrotters; title: Derek Jeter; title: Earvin "Magic" Johnson; title: Jack Johnson; title: Michael Jordan; title: Florence Griffin Joyner; title: Joe Louis; title: Negro Baseball Leagues; title: Shaquille O'Neal; title: Jessie Owens; title: Bill Pickett; title: Eddie Robinson; title: Wilma Rudolph; title: Tommie Smith and John Carlos; title: Venus and Serena Williams; title: Tiger Woods.