Darwin's Athletes: How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth...

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Binding
Hardcover
Weight
11 lbs
Product Group
Book
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ISBN
9780395822913
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-10
0395822912
ISBN-13
9780395822913
eBay Product ID (ePID)
164910

Product Key Features

Book Title
Darwin's Athletes : How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year
1997
Genre
Social Science
Type
Textbook
Author
John Hoberman
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight
21.8 Oz
Item Length
9.8 in
Item Width
6.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
96-036170
Dewey Edition
20
Dewey Decimal
796/.089/96073
Edition Description
Teacher's edition
Synopsis
Darwin's Athletes zeroes in on our society's fixation on black athletic achievement. John Hoberman compellingly argues that this obsession - one shared by both blacks and whites in the media, in corporate America, and even by athletes themselves - has come to play a disastrous role in African American life and a troubling role in our country's race relations. This sports fixation originates in the painful century-long exclusion of blacks from every other path to high achievement. The scarcity of other kinds of race heroes has conferred messianic status on the most popular black athletes, which has fostered a delusion of integration while contributing to deep social divisions. Rich, flamboyant superstars lend credence to age-old prejudices, recycled scientific theories denigrating black intelligence, and stereotypes of black violence. This athleticizing of black identity encourages a disdain for academic achievement already too widespread among black males. During the past centur
LC Classification Number
GV583.H6 1997

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