Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports And Why We're Afraid To Talk About ItPublicAffairs, 10 янв. 2001 г. - Всего страниц: 400 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. |
Результаты поиска по книге
Результаты 1 – 3 из 42
Стр. 267
... evidence a conglomeration of traits that help them survive or thrive in particular environments . So it is naïve of both critics and proponents of the " Darwin's athletes " hypothesis to focus on specific traits instead of on broad ...
... evidence a conglomeration of traits that help them survive or thrive in particular environments . So it is naïve of both critics and proponents of the " Darwin's athletes " hypothesis to focus on specific traits instead of on broad ...
Стр. 282
... evidence , however , they end up attacking the concept of science itself to justify an unquali- fied dismissal of the formative role of genetics . " Whites appear to be threatened by black success in sport , and the common - sense ...
... evidence , however , they end up attacking the concept of science itself to justify an unquali- fied dismissal of the formative role of genetics . " Whites appear to be threatened by black success in sport , and the common - sense ...
Стр. 341
... evidence for black athletic superiority is overwhelming and in accord with what we see on the playing field . By and large , athletes who rely on the ability to sprint and jump trace their ancestry to West Africa ; East and North ...
... evidence for black athletic superiority is overwhelming and in accord with what we see on the playing field . By and large , athletes who rely on the ability to sprint and jump trace their ancestry to West Africa ; East and North ...
Содержание
PART I | 5 |
The Education of Sir Roger | 11 |
By the Numbers | 17 |
Авторские права | |
Не показаны другие разделы: 23
Другие издания - Просмотреть все
Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports And Why We're Afraid To Talk About It Jon Entine Ограниченный просмотр - 2008 |
Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports And Why We're Afraid To Talk About It Jon Entine Ограниченный просмотр - 2008 |
Taboo: Why Black Athletes Are Better And Why We're Afraid To Talk About It Jon Entine Просмотр фрагмента - 2000 |
Часто встречающиеся слова и выражения
African American anthropologist Asians baseball basketball believed biological black and white black athletes black players brain Carl Lewis Caucasian century champion coach competition cultural Darwin dominate drug East Eldoret elite ethnic eugenics European evolution evolutionary female football genes genetic geneticists German gold medals groups Hardy Hicham El Guerrouj human biodiversity Ibid intelligence Jesse Owens Jews Johnson Journal jump Kalenjin Keino Kenyan Kip Keino Kipchoge Keino League letes Louis marathon meters miles modern humans mtDNA muscle natural Neanderthal Negro North Olympic out-of-Africa Owens percent physical Pioneer Fund playing population Quoted race race science racial differences racist runners says scientific scientists skin color soccer social species sprinters sprinting star stereotypes success superiority Taboo theory tion track tradition University Vincent Sarich West Africa West African ancestry white athletes Wilson Kipketer Wolpoff women world record wrote York