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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... abilities of African American athletes that have been the focus of speculation, research, and scholarship for more than 100 years. Most importantly, though, Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We're Afraid to Talk About It ...
... abilities of African American athletes that have been the focus of speculation, research, and scholarship for more than 100 years. Most importantly, though, Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We're Afraid to Talk About It ...
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... ability to excel?" wrote Sybil Smith, a former All-America swimmer at Boston University and then a swim coach at Harvard, in Sports Illustrated. She said she was driven to tears by the unpleasant memories the show stirred of her days as ...
... ability to excel?" wrote Sybil Smith, a former All-America swimmer at Boston University and then a swim coach at Harvard, in Sports Illustrated. She said she was driven to tears by the unpleasant memories the show stirred of her days as ...
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... ability are almost exclusively black. In street parlance this phenomenon is blamed on a malady, virulently infectious but apparently limited to Caucasians—white man's disease. “The NBA is perhaps the only arena of American life,” opined ...
... ability are almost exclusively black. In street parlance this phenomenon is blamed on a malady, virulently infectious but apparently limited to Caucasians—white man's disease. “The NBA is perhaps the only arena of American life,” opined ...
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... abilities are more likely to come to the fore. East Asians are disciplined and very competitive, yet because of their small stature and natural flexibility—a result of evolutionary forces—they make better ice skaters, and gymnasts than ...
... abilities are more likely to come to the fore. East Asians are disciplined and very competitive, yet because of their small stature and natural flexibility—a result of evolutionary forces—they make better ice skaters, and gymnasts than ...
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... abilities. Not surprisingly, athletes from each region tend to excel in specific athletic events as a result of both cultural and genetic factors: West Africa is the ancestral home of the world's top sprinters and jumpers; North Africa ...
... abilities. Not surprisingly, athletes from each region tend to excel in specific athletic events as a result of both cultural and genetic factors: West Africa is the ancestral home of the world's top sprinters and jumpers; North Africa ...
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