TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wiggins,David Kenneth
AU  - Dyreson,Mark
AU  - Witherspoon,Kevin B.
TI  - Black Mercuries: African American athletes, race, and the modern Olympic games 
SN  - 9781538152836
AV  - GV721.5 .W455 2023
U1  - 796.4809 23/eng/20220811
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Lanham
PB  - Rowman & Littlefield
KW  - African American athletes
KW  - History
KW  - Olympic athletes
KW  - Racism in sports
KW  - Sports and globalization
KW  - Sports
KW  - Sociological aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-273) and index; Introduction -- Pioneering Black Mercuries: African American Olympians, 1896-1920 -- Black Mercuries in the Jazz Age -- Black Mercuries in the Turbulent 1930s -- Black Mercuries and the Dawning of the Cold War -- Black Mercuries in the Age of Protest -- Black Mercuries in the Age of Boycotts -- Black Mercuries in the Immediate Post-Cold War Period -- Black Mercuries During the Age of Globalization -- Black Mercuries Shine in Rio and Tokyo
N2  - "This book chronicles the struggles and triumphs of African American athletes in the Modern Olympic Games, from 1896 through the 2020 Tokyo Games. It explores the lives and careers of both legendary and little-known Black Olympians as they sought to honor themselves, their race, and their nation on the world stage"--
ER  -