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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... Runners World editor “The real value of the book is its willingness to address racist thought in the context of the black athlete and seek an honest dialogue on the topic.” —Brian Gilmore, Africana.com. “This is an important book for ...
... Runners World editor “The real value of the book is its willingness to address racist thought in the context of the black athlete and seek an honest dialogue on the topic.” —Brian Gilmore, Africana.com. “This is an important book for ...
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... runners Ó Vinny Dusovic/Photo Run. Photo of Kipchoge Keino, courtesy of the author. Photo of the Oberlin College baseball tcam courtesy of the Oberlin College Archives. Photo of Jack Johnson (C) Brown Brothers. Photo of Jesse Owens ...
... runners Ó Vinny Dusovic/Photo Run. Photo of Kipchoge Keino, courtesy of the author. Photo of the Oberlin College baseball tcam courtesy of the Oberlin College Archives. Photo of Jack Johnson (C) Brown Brothers. Photo of Jesse Owens ...
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... runners. Only one problem: The national Sport, the hero worship, the adoring fans, the social channeling, the confluence of “opportunity and access” that Berkeley professor Hintzen talks about as if it were a revealed truth—that all ...
... runners. Only one problem: The national Sport, the hero worship, the adoring fans, the social channeling, the confluence of “opportunity and access” that Berkeley professor Hintzen talks about as if it were a revealed truth—that all ...
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... runners, but they do circumscribe possibility. “The basis for the success of black runners is in the genes,” asserted Bengt Saltin, physiologist and director of the Copenhagen Muscle Research Institute (and author of the September 2000 ...
... runners, but they do circumscribe possibility. “The basis for the success of black runners is in the genes,” asserted Bengt Saltin, physiologist and director of the Copenhagen Muscle Research Institute (and author of the September 2000 ...
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... runners, white weight lifters with enormous upper body strength, and the explosive runners and jumpers of West African ancestry. “Entine understands that as Scientists continue to study the complex interactions between genes and the ...
... runners, white weight lifters with enormous upper body strength, and the explosive runners and jumpers of West African ancestry. “Entine understands that as Scientists continue to study the complex interactions between genes and the ...
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