Research Catalog

Title

Taboo : why Black athletes dominate sports and why we are afraid to talk about it / Jon Entine.

Author

Entine, Jon

Publication

New York : PublicAffairs, c2000.

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Subject

• Athletes, Black
• Black people > Race identity

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 346-374) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

pt. 1. The taboo. -- Breaking the taboo on race and sports -- The education of Sir Roger -- pt. 2. The evidence. -- By the numbers -- The most level playing field -- Nature's experiment : the "Kenyan miracle" -- pt. 3. History of race science and sports. -- "More brains or more ..." -- Evolution (of great athletes) -- Race without color : the history of human differences -- The origins of race science -- pt. 4. The segregation and integration of sports. -- The superiority of white athletes -- Jack Johnson in the ring against Jim Crow -- American eugenics -- Jesse Owens and the German race -- A knockout blow to race science -- The "scheming, flashy trickiness" of Jews -- pt. 5. Nature or nurture? -- The integration of sports -- The sixties -- Sports and IQ -- Winning the genetic lottery -- The environmentalist case against innate black superiority in sports -- pt. 6. What about women? -- The superiority of white female athletes -- East Germany's sports machine -- The Renaissance of the Black female athlete -- pt. 7. Final thoughts. -- A genteel way to say "Nigger"?

ISBN

1891620398

LCCN

^^^99041889^

OCLC

42021494

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library