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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... baseball tcam courtesy of the Oberlin College Archives. Photo of Jack Johnson (C) Brown Brothers. Photo of Jesse Owens courtesy of the Chicago Daily Defender. Photo of the Eastern League basketball champions courtesy of Naismith ...
... baseball tcam courtesy of the Oberlin College Archives. Photo of Jack Johnson (C) Brown Brothers. Photo of Jesse Owens courtesy of the Chicago Daily Defender. Photo of the Eastern League basketball champions courtesy of Naismith ...
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... baseball, soccer, rugby, cricket, even bobsledding in some countries—blacks are represented in greater number than their share of the population. Why is this so? Are blacks modern tibermenschen, Friedrich Nietzsche's.
... baseball, soccer, rugby, cricket, even bobsledding in some countries—blacks are represented in greater number than their share of the population. Why is this so? Are blacks modern tibermenschen, Friedrich Nietzsche's.
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... baseball in droves for basketball and football, more than one-third of Major League Baseball and a higher percentage of the top stars are blacks from North and Latin America. Even these eye-popping numbers grossly understate the trends ...
... baseball in droves for basketball and football, more than one-third of Major League Baseball and a higher percentage of the top stars are blacks from North and Latin America. Even these eye-popping numbers grossly understate the trends ...
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... baseball players, and African Americans the top basketball and football players? Clearly, "racial" patterns in sports do not lend themselves to a facile black and white explanation. W H AT A B O U T B A S E B A L L 2 The relative dearth ...
... baseball players, and African Americans the top basketball and football players? Clearly, "racial" patterns in sports do not lend themselves to a facile black and white explanation. W H AT A B O U T B A S E B A L L 2 The relative dearth ...
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... baseball than ever before. Only 60 percent of Major League Baseball players are American-born whites, and the number is decreasing every year. Over the past twenty years, Hispanics, many of whom are black, have jumped from 8 to 24 ...
... baseball than ever before. Only 60 percent of Major League Baseball players are American-born whites, and the number is decreasing every year. Over the past twenty years, Hispanics, many of whom are black, have jumped from 8 to 24 ...
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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 |
Taboo: Why Black Athletes Are Better And Why We're Afraid To Talk About It Jon Entine Просмотр фрагмента - 2000 |
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