What's my name, fool? : sports and resistance in the United States

What's my name, fool? Sports and resistance in the United States

Dave Zirin

Book - 2005

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Subjects
Sports > Social aspects.
Published
Chicago : Haymarket Books 2005.
Language
English
Main Author
Dave Zirin (-)
Physical Description
293 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Audience
1180L
ISBN
9781931859202
  • Acknowledgements
  • Foreword
  • Introduction: Sports-An Offer We Can't Refuse
  • 1. It All Starts With Lester Rodney
  • 2. Jackie Robinson and the Politics of Stealing Home
  • 3. Rumble, Young Man, Rumble: Muhammad Ali and the 1960s
  • 4. The 1968 Olympics Raise the Bar
  • 5. "We Just Really Hate to Lose": Unions and Sports
  • 6. In the Shadow of Ali: Sports, War, and Resistance Today
  • 7. Gone With the Wind?: Sports, Race, and the Modern Athlete
  • 8. Taking Care of T.C.B.: Sports, Sexism, and Gay Bashing
  • 9. Games That Bosses Play
  • 10. Stir of Echoes: A New Sporting Resistance?
  • Afterword: We Are the Greatest

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