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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... cultural conditions can amplify small but meaningful differences in performance related to heredity.” The most deeply felt criticism came from those who believed that the book reflects a historical “white obsession” about racial ...
... cultural conditions can amplify small but meaningful differences in performance related to heredity.” The most deeply felt criticism came from those who believed that the book reflects a historical “white obsession” about racial ...
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... cultural diversity. “It is perhaps the existence of these lingering attitudes—still prevalent throughout much of this country—which explains some of the backlash against Taboo's central thesis," wrote Michael Crawford, University of ...
... cultural diversity. “It is perhaps the existence of these lingering attitudes—still prevalent throughout much of this country—which explains some of the backlash against Taboo's central thesis," wrote Michael Crawford, University of ...
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... cultural explanation for the remarkable success of Kenyan distance runners. Only one problem: The national Sport, the hero worship, the adoring fans, the social channeling, the confluence of “opportunity and access” that Berkeley ...
... cultural explanation for the remarkable success of Kenyan distance runners. Only one problem: The national Sport, the hero worship, the adoring fans, the social channeling, the confluence of “opportunity and access” that Berkeley ...
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... cultural factors? Perhaps, but doubtful. “Chinese splits," a rare gymnastics maneuver demanding extraordinary flexibility, has roots in this unique anthropometric capacity of East Asians. Even Asian domination of Ping-Pong is likely to ...
... cultural factors? Perhaps, but doubtful. “Chinese splits," a rare gymnastics maneuver demanding extraordinary flexibility, has roots in this unique anthropometric capacity of East Asians. Even Asian domination of Ping-Pong is likely to ...
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... cultural context, the secular creationist standpoint not only commits biological errors but defies common sense.” Demonizing genetics in the name of social justice is a dangerous (and ultimately futile) gambit. Today, no credible ...
... cultural context, the secular creationist standpoint not only commits biological errors but defies common sense.” Demonizing genetics in the name of social justice is a dangerous (and ultimately futile) gambit. Today, no credible ...
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