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084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aEarly, Gerald L. _eautore
245	1	2	_aA Level Playing Field : _bAfrican American Athletes and the Republic of Sports / _cGerald L. Early.
264		1	_aCambridge, MA : _bHarvard University Press, _c[2011]
264		4	_c2011
300			_a1 online resource (288 p.)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_atext file _bPDF _2rda
490	0		_aAlain Locke Lecture Series
505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tAcknowledgments -- _tIntroduction -- _tPART I. Leveling the Playing Field -- _t1. When Worlds Collide: Jackie Robinson, Paul Robeson, Harry Truman, and the Korean War -- _t2. Curt Flood, Gratitude, and the Image of Baseball -- _t3. Donovan McNabb, Rush Limbaugh, and the Making of the Black Quarterback -- _tPART II. Heroism and the Republic of Sports -- _t4. American Integration, Black Heroism, and the Meaning of Jackie Robinson -- _t5. Performance and Reality: Race, Sports, and the Modern World -- _t6. Where Have We Gone, Mr. Robinson? -- _tNotes
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aAs Americans, we believe there ought to be a level playing field for everyone. Even if we don’t expect to finish first, we do expect a fair start. Only in sports have African Americans actually found that elusive level ground. But at the same time, black players offer an ironic perspective on the athlete-hero, for they represent a group historically held to be without social honor.In his first new collection of sports essays since Tuxedo Junction (1989), the noted cultural critic Gerald Early investigates these contradictions as they play out in the sports world and in our deeper attitudes toward the athletes we glorify. Early addresses a half-century of heated cultural issues ranging from integration to the use of performance-enhancing drugs. Writing about Jackie Robinson and Curt Flood, he reconstructs pivotal moments in their lives and explains how the culture, politics, and economics of sport turned with them. Taking on the subtexts, racial and otherwise, of the controversy over remarks Rush Limbaugh made about quarterback Donovan McNabb, Early restores the political consequence to an event most commentators at the time approached with predictable bluster.The essays in this book circle around two perennial questions: What other, invisible contests unfold when we watch a sporting event? What desires and anxieties are encoded in our worship of (or disdain for) high-performance athletes?These essays are based on the Alain Locke lectures at Harvard University’s Du Bois Institute.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 19. Oct 2024)
650		0	_aAfrican American athletes -- History.
650		0	_aAfrican American athletes -- Social conditions.
650		0	_aAfrican American athletes _xHistory.
650		0	_aAfrican American athletes _xSocial conditions.
650		0	_aDiscrimination in sports -- United States -- History.
650		0	_aDiscrimination in sports _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aSports -- United States -- History.
650		0	_aSports _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		7	_aSPORTS & RECREATION / Essays. _2bisacsh
850			_aIT-RoAPU
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674060869
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674060869
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