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020 _a9781538152836
_q(Cloth :
_qacid-free paper)
020 _z9781538152843
_q(epub)
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_beng
_erda
_cDLC
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050 0 0 _aGV721.5
_b.W455 2023
082 0 0 _a796.4809
_223/eng/20220811
100 1 _aWiggins, David Kenneth,
_d1951-
245 1 0 _aBlack Mercuries :
_bAfrican American athletes, race, and the modern Olympic games /
_cDavid K. Wiggins, Kevin B. Witherspoon, Mark Dyreson.
264 1 _aLanham :
_bRowman & Littlefield,
_c[2023]
300 _axix, 304 pages :
_billustrations, portraits ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 249-273) and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction -- 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.
520 _a"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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 0 _aAfrican American athletes
_xHistory.
650 0 _aOlympic athletes
_xHistory.
650 0 _aRacism in sports.
650 0 _aSports and globalization.
650 0 _aSports
_xSociological aspects.
700 1 _aDyreson, Mark,
_d1959-
700 1 _aWitherspoon, Kevin B.,
776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_aWiggins, David Kenneth, 1951-
_tBlack mercuries
_dLanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2023]
_z9781538152843
_w(DLC) 2022023331
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