Filter results

Results (539)

Sort by:

Select all Select all

Page 1

David K. Wiggins, Kevin B. Witherspoon, Mark Dyreson - Black Mercuries

No access

Select

David K. Wiggins, Kevin B. Witherspoon, Mark Dyreson

Black Mercuries

2023

Results in this title

PREFACE

„… 9781538152843 (epub) Subjects: LCSH: Olympic athletes—History. | African American athletes—History. | Racism …” „… mercuries : African American athletes, race, and the modern Olympic games / David K. Wiggins, Kevin B …” „… worthy of this history. Black Mercuries: African American Athletes, Race, and the Modern Olympic Games …”

5 BLACK MERCURIES IN THE AGE OF PROTEST S. 111-136

„… . For African American athletes—as all Olympians in Munich—the horrific tragedy of the terrorist attack …” „… , and field events in Mexico City, many of them set by African American athletes. Most memorably, within …” „… . A final athlete warrants mention. Ruth White of Baltimore became the first African American woman to …”

1 PIONEERING BLACK MERCURIES S. 1-26

„… . Still, at least one African American athlete and perhaps two took part for the first time in the Olympic …” „… African American athlete at the Olympics. The physician Charles J. P. Lucas who compiled the official …” „… , African American athletes who excelled in the white world and functioned as “inseverable link[s] in the …”

9 BLACK MERCURIES SHINE IN RIO AND TOKYO S. 221-248

„… those won by African Ameri-can athletes.Again, no African American garnered more attention than gymnast …” „… CAPABLY REPRESENTED IN RIOBesides Biles, two other African American women athletes who had break-out …” „… African American athletes down through the years, she confronted stereotypical notions regarding race and …”

3 BLACK MERCURIES IN THE TURBULENT 1930s S. 55-82

„… during the 1930s continued to transform sport as African American athletes who were born below the …” „… , but the number of African Americans who made the roster surged. Eighteen Black athletes won places on …” „… segregated South, the best African American athletes still came of age outside of “Dixie” in major …”

4 BLACK MERCURIES AND THE DAWNING OF THE COLD WAR S. 83-110

„… Whitfield was but one of many African American athletes to excel in London. A number of stars, including …” „… excellence of America’s Black athletes was not limited to track and field. Three African Americans competed …” „… was only one of many outstanding African American athletes to star at the Helsinki Olympics, including …”

A BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAY ON SOURCES S. 263-274

„… Olympians including several from Black athletes. Additional repositories with African American Olympian …” „… variety of secondary sources survey the participation of African Ameri-can athletes in the Olympics. The …” „… Glory: A History of the African American Athlete, 3 vols. (New York: Amistad, 1993); David K. Wiggins …”

2 BLACK MERCURIES IN THE JAZZ AGE S. 27-54

„… . Overwhelmingly, African American athletes represented their nation as Black Mercuries in the sport symbolized by …” „… athletes served as the most visible public faces for an emerging new African American culture that during …” „… clubs. Alongside African American musicians and literati, athletes became the avatars of the Jazz Age …”

7 BLACK MERCURIES IN THE IMMEDIATE POST–COLD WAR PERIOD S. 165-192

„… impressive array of other African American athletes who fenced, swam, boxed, and yes, ran their way into …” „… the Games, however, provided further evidence of the commodification of African American athletes as …” „… discrimination. Some prominent individuals in the African American community chastised Black athletes for …”

8 BLACK MERCURIES DURING THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION S. 193-220

„… , Jesse Owens, Mal Whitfield, and the other early African American athletes who graced the Olympic stage …” „… T E R 8that African American athletes still confronted racialist thinking, deep-seated …” „… fortune, and talent, African American athletes, men and increasingly more women, navigated the racial …”

6 BLACK MERCURIES IN THE AGE OF BOYCOTTS S. 137-164

„… , finished third in that event.African American athletes added to the U.S. medal count in the hurdling events …” „… African American athletes, though, 1980 represented their one and only chance at Olympic glory. Many of …” „… , and then stopped. African American cyclist Nelson Vails inched behind Vernet, bunny-hopped his back …”

INDEX S. 275-302

„… Adrian, Nathan, 215African American athletes; and activism/protest, xi, xvi, 92, 99, 103, 109–10, 166 …” „… Felix, Allyson, 198–99, 208–9, 213, 227–28, 238–39female athletes, African American: challenges …” „… confronting, 117, 218; Coachman, Alice as mentor, 91–92; double prejudice for female African American athletes …”

NOTES S. 249-262

„… David K. Wiggins, ed., African Americans in Sports (Armonk, NY: Taylor & Francis Group, 2003), 264–67.14 …” „… American Athletes (New York: A.O.C., 1935).31. F. M. Davis, “Sports Snapshots: Forget about the Olympic …” „… Boycott,” Balti-more Afro-American, December 28, 1935, p. 20.32. “9 Colored Athletes Score 63 Individual …”

ABOUT THE AUTHORS S. 303-304

„… African American Experience in Sport (2003), and More Than a Game: A History of the African American …” „… primarily on the interconnection among race, sport, and American culture. Included among his books are Glory …” „… Bound: Black Athletes in a White America (1997), The Unlevel Playing Field: A Documentary History of the …”

doi.org/10.5771/9781538152843

Markwart Herzog, Michael Krüger - Schwimmen

No access

Select

Markwart Herzog (ed.), Michael Krüger (ed.)

Schwimmen

Series: Sonderband Stadion

Volume 2024

Results in this title

Olaf Stieglitz “The action is sometimes too swift for the camera:” Visualizing Modernity in American Swimming Pools S. 163-200

„… African American athletes, e.g. Jim Thorpe and Lewis Tewanima, the well-known track and fielders. For the …” „… into the United States, re-rooted in Hawai’i, successfully swum by American athletes, analyzed by …” „… : “As women’s sports boomed during the 1920s, American culture transformed female athletes into icons …”

doi.org/10.5771/9783985721603

Stefan Rinke, Kay Schiller - The FIFA World Cup 1930 – 2010

No access

Select

Stefan Rinke (ed.), Kay Schiller (ed.)

The FIFA World Cup 1930 – 2010

2014

Results in this title

Alan Tomlinson FIFA: Beginnings, Tensions, Trajectories S. 30-46

„… responsive to the demands of Central American, Asian, and African associations for “a more equal treatment in …” „… due case, by the National Federation to the employer which requests it; athletes/players would not …” „… concern. FIFA also rejected a proposal from the newly admitted South American member of the executive …”

Chris Bolsmann The 2010 World Cup in South Africa. A Continental Spectacle? S. 372-388

„… participated. They included African, Asian, European and South American based journalists, who were taken to …” „… of former South African President Nelson Mandela holding the FIFA World Cup trophy is indelibly …” „… etched into the collective memory of football-loving South Africans and citizens across the globe. The …”

Paul Dietschy The 1938 World Cup. Sporting Neutrality and Geopolitics, or All-Conquering Fascism? S. 85-102

„… maintained”. However, France had a South American rival to contend with. Dupuy, the Uruguayan delegate …” „… some Peruvian spectators, a decision which seemed to confirm the South American protestations about …” „… American associations, and the tournament in France was no different. Although the British associations …”

David Goldblatt Another Kind of History. Globalization, Global History and the World Cup S. 13-29

„… thinking about the World Cup from an American perspective. Yet, in one important respect, America has no …” „… peer; the engagement of its literary elites with sport. The capacity of American novelists and …” „… contemporary American writing can be found in the opening chapter of Don DeLillo’s Underworld. This epic and …”

Kay Schiller The 1974 World Cup in West Germany: A Non-Event? S. 220-239

„… representative. Overall, there were very few goals, with the South American teams largely emulating the Italians …” „… informal and easy-going society, the massacre of the Israeli athletes, for which the German authorities …” „… athlete and self-made multimillionaire, capitalized on Brazil’s international football success and was …”

Keith Brewster, Claire “He hath not done this for any other nation”. Mexico’s 1970 and 1986 World Cups S. 199-219

„… Through Latin American Football (London: Phoenix, 1998), p. 222; John Sugden & Alan Tomlinson, FIFA and …” „… presence within FIFA through the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association …” „… . 7 As Rory Miller points out, Mexico represents somewhat of an exception to the usual Latin American …”

doi.org/10.5771/9783835326064

Jacob S. Eder, Philipp Gassert, Alan E. Steinweis - Holocaust Memory in a Globalizing World

No access

Select

Jacob S. Eder (ed.), Philipp Gassert (ed.), Alan E. Steinweis (ed.)

Holocaust Memory in a Globalizing World

2017

Results in this title

Clarence Taylor Contested Visions. African American Memories of the Holocaust S. 171-186

„… 171 Contested Visions African American Memories of the Holocaust Clarence Taylor There are numerous …” „… relationships in the United States, few works explore African Americans and Holocaust memory. The best work to …” „… Americans and Jews. Sundquist spends some time examining African American responses to the Holocaust by …”

doi.org/10.5771/9783835340114

Kristina Brümmer, Alexandra Janetzko, Thomas Alkemeyer - Ansätze einer Kultursoziologie des Sports

No access

Select

Kristina Brümmer (ed.), Alexandra Janetzko (ed.), Thomas Alkemeyer (ed.)

Ansätze einer Kultursoziologie des Sports

Series: Kultursoziologie und Kulturgeschichte der Gegenwart | Sociology of Culture and Contemporary Cultural History

Volume 1 2021

Results in this title

Michael L. Butterworth Sports, Politics, and Media Representations S. 311-332

„… – especially African American athletes – had for too long abdicated their responsibilities to speak out against …” „… that saw (mostly white) police officers killing (mostly unarmed) African American men. As Kaepernick …” „… charting the influence of African American voices in professional sports. He uses the case of Curt Flood …”

doi.org/10.5771/9783845288796

1

2 3 ... 108