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Reconstructing fame [electronic resource] : sport, race, and evolving reputations / edited by David C. Ogden and Joel Nathan Rosen.

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With contributions by Prosper Godonoo, Urla Hill, C. Richard King, David J. Leonard, Jack Lule, Murry Nelson, David C. Ogden, Robert W. Reising, and Joel Nathan Rosen Reconstructing Fame: Sport, Race, and Evolving Reputations includes essays on Jackie Robinson, Roberto Clemente, Curt Flood, Paul Rob...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Ogden, David C. (Editor), Rosen, Joel Nathan, 1961- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2008.
Subjects:
Racism in sports > United States > History.
Athletes > United States > Public opinion.
Public opinion > United States.
Athletes > Public opinion.
Public opinion.
Racism in sports.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Constructing banality: the trivialization of the Jackie Robinson legacy / Joel Nathan Rosen
  • Roberto Clemente: from ignominy to icon / David C. Ogden
  • Curt Flood: "death is a slave's freedom": his fight against baseball, history, and white supremacy / David J. Leonard
  • Paul Robeson: honor and the politics of dignity / Prosper Godonoo
  • Remaking an overlooked icon: the reconstruction of Jim Thorpe / Robert W. Reising
  • Bill Russell: from revulsion to resurrection / Murry Nelson
  • Racing after Smith and Carlos: revisiting those fists some forty years hence / Urla Hill
  • Afterword: the globalization of vilification; the localization of redemption / Jack Lule.

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