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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... stereotypes of nineteenth-century racial discourse that represented African Americans as a race of physical bodies (athletes) without minds or spirits. He has skillfully rekindled the burning questions of the innate physical abilities ...
... stereotypes of nineteenth-century racial discourse that represented African Americans as a race of physical bodies (athletes) without minds or spirits. He has skillfully rekindled the burning questions of the innate physical abilities ...
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... stereotype of the “dumb black jock." For sure, this distorted view of African American athletes does not apply to Michael Jordan! People are attracted to simple cause/effect relationships. Yet it does not work that way in life or sports ...
... stereotype of the “dumb black jock." For sure, this distorted view of African American athletes does not apply to Michael Jordan! People are attracted to simple cause/effect relationships. Yet it does not work that way in life or sports ...
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... as either an expression of black pride or a simplistic stereotype so powerful that even successful blacks have come to recite a racist party line. Even raising the subject of black athletic superiority brings angry TABOO.
... as either an expression of black pride or a simplistic stereotype so powerful that even successful blacks have come to recite a racist party line. Even raising the subject of black athletic superiority brings angry TABOO.
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... stereotypes of black mental and moral inferiority. In this garbled translation, black success in sports is not a compliment, but a proxy for racism—a “genteel way to say nigger," in the cut-to-the-chase words of fellow Times columnist ...
... stereotypes of black mental and moral inferiority. In this garbled translation, black success in sports is not a compliment, but a proxy for racism—a “genteel way to say nigger," in the cut-to-the-chase words of fellow Times columnist ...
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... stereotypes. Taboo is out to do some damage to these prejudices. It was written in the optimistic belief that open debate beats backroom scuttlebutt. Although discussing racial differences is likely to provoke strong reactions, on ...
... stereotypes. Taboo is out to do some damage to these prejudices. It was written in the optimistic belief that open debate beats backroom scuttlebutt. Although discussing racial differences is likely to provoke strong reactions, on ...
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