Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports And Why We're Afraid To Talk About ItPublicAffairs, 5 авг. 2008 г. - Всего страниц: 352 In virtually every sport in which they are given opportunity to compete, people of African descent dominate. East Africans own every distance running record. Professional sports in the Americas are dominated by men and women of West African descent. Why have blacks come to dominate sports? Are they somehow physically better? And why are we so uncomfortable when we discuss this? Drawing on the latest scientific research, journalist Jon Entine makes an irrefutable case for black athletic superiority. We learn how scientists have used numerous, bogus "scientific" methods to prove that blacks were either more or less superior physically, and how racist scientists have often equated physical prowess with intellectual deficiency. Entine recalls the long, hard road to integration, both on the field and in society. And he shows why it isn't just being black that matters—it makes a huge difference as to where in Africa your ancestors are from.Equal parts sports, science and examination of why this topic is so sensitive, Taboois a book that will spark national debate. |
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... ancestry holds every major running record, from the 100 meters to the marathon? Running is truly the most international of sports. Athletes face with the lowest social and economic barriers. Let's look at Kenya, a tiny country in East ...
... ancestry holds every major running record, from the 100 meters to the marathon? Running is truly the most international of sports. Athletes face with the lowest social and economic barriers. Let's look at Kenya, a tiny country in East ...
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... ancestry to West Africa. And consider this: while the qualifying time for the men's 100 meters was 10.6 seconds, pokey by modern standards, one of the world's historical running meccas, Finland, could not produce a qualifier. This came ...
... ancestry to West Africa. And consider this: while the qualifying time for the men's 100 meters was 10.6 seconds, pokey by modern standards, one of the world's historical running meccas, Finland, could not produce a qualifier. This came ...
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... ancestry. “Entine understands that as Scientists continue to study the complex interactions between genes and the environment, population-based genetic differences will continue to surface,” wrote professor Michael Crawford. “We can ...
... ancestry. “Entine understands that as Scientists continue to study the complex interactions between genes and the environment, population-based genetic differences will continue to surface,” wrote professor Michael Crawford. “We can ...
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... ancestry to Africa are by and large better than the competition. The performance gap is widest when little expensive equipment or facilities are required, such as running, the only true intentional sport, and in widely played team ...
... ancestry to Africa are by and large better than the competition. The performance gap is widest when little expensive equipment or facilities are required, such as running, the only true intentional sport, and in widely played team ...
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... ancestry and marked by skin color, ethnicity, and geography—is a fuzzy concept. This fuzziness is compounded by the historical reality that theories about race have been frequently superficial and almost always reflective of a social ...
... ancestry and marked by skin color, ethnicity, and geography—is a fuzzy concept. This fuzziness is compounded by the historical reality that theories about race have been frequently superficial and almost always reflective of a social ...
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