| Description |
ix, 387 pages, <4> leaves of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Pt. I. The Taboo. 1. Breaking the Taboo on Race and Sports. 2. The Education of Sir Roger -- Pt. II. The Evidence. 3. By the Numbers. 4. The Most Level Playing Field. 5. Nature's Experiment: The "Kenyan Miracle" -- Pt. III. History of Race Science and Sports. 6. "More Brains or More ..." 7. Evolution (of Great Athletes). 8. Race Without Color: The History of Human Differences. 9. The Origins of Race Science -- Pt. IV. The Segregation and Integration of Sports. 10. The Superiority of White Athletes. 11. Jack Johnson in the Ring Against Jim Crow. 12. American Eugenics. 13. Jesse Owens and the German Race. 14. A Knockout Blow to Race Science. 15. The "Scheming, Flashy Trickiness" of Jews -- Pt. V. Nature or Nurture? 16. The Integration of Sports. 17. The Sixties. 18. Sports and IQ. 19. Winning the Genetic Lottery. 20. The Environmentalist Case Against Innate Black Superiority in Sports -- Pt. VI. What About Women? 21. The Superiority of White Female Athletes |
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22. East Germany's Sports Machine. 23. The Renaissance of the Black Female Athlete -- Pt. VII. Final Thoughts. 24. A Genteel Way to Say "Nigger"? |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [346]-374 |
| Subject |
Athletes, Black.
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Blacks -- Race identity.
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| LC no. |
99041889 |
| ISBN |
158648026X (paperback) |
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1891620398 |
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