Passing the baton: Black women track stars and American identity

"After World War II, the United States used international sport to promote democratic values and its image of an ideal citizen. But African American women excelling in track and field upset such notions. Cat M. Ariail examines how athletes such as Alice Coachman, Mae Faggs, and Wilma Rudolph fo...

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1. Verfasser: Ariail, Cat M. 1987- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Abschlussarbeit Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Urbana University of Illinois Press [2020]
Schriftenreihe:Sport and society
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Zusammenfassung:"After World War II, the United States used international sport to promote democratic values and its image of an ideal citizen. But African American women excelling in track and field upset such notions. Cat M. Ariail examines how athletes such as Alice Coachman, Mae Faggs, and Wilma Rudolph forced American sport cultures-both white and Black-to reckon with the athleticism of African American women. Marginalized still further in a low-profile sport, young Black women nonetheless bypassed barriers to represent their country. Their athletic success soon threatened postwar America's dominant ideas about race, gender, sexuality, and national identity. As Ariail shows, the wider culture defused these radical challenges by locking the athletes within roles that stressed conservative forms of femininity, blackness, and citizenship"--
Beschreibung:Revision of author's thesis (doctoral), University of Miami, 2018, titled "Sprints of citizenship : black women track stars and the making of modern citizenship in the United States and Jamaica, 1946-1964"
Beschreibung:x, 230 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:9780252085383
9780252043482

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