A Spectacular Leap

Black Women Athletes in Twentieth-Century America

Jennifer H. Lansbury (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

353 Seiten

2022
University of Arkansas Press (Verlag)
978-1-68226-211-5 (ISBN)

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Through the stories of six athletes, including Althea Gibson, Wilma Rudloph and Jackie Joyner-Kersee - Jennifer Lansbury deftly follows the emergence of black women athletes from the African American community; their confrontations with contemporary attitudes of race, class, and gender; and their encounters with the civil rights movement.

Through the stories of six athletes—Alice Coachman, Ora Washington, Althea Gibson, Wilma Rudloph, Wyomia Tyus, and Jackie Joyner-Kersee—Jennifer H. Lansbury deftly follows the emergence of black women athletes from the African American community; their confrontations with contemporary attitudes of race, class, and gender; and their encounters with the civil rights movement. Uncovering the various strategies the athletes used to beat back stereotypes, Lansbury explores the fullness of African American women’s relationship with sport in the twentieth century.

Jennifer Lansbury is a twentieth-century American cultural historian. In addition to A Spectacular Leap, she is the author of More Than Words Can Ever Tell (December 2020).

Erscheinungsdatum	05.03.2022
Reihe/Serie	Sport, Culture, and Society
Verlagsort	Fayetteville
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	261 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-68226-211-1 / 1682262111
ISBN-13	978-1-68226-211-5 / 9781682262115
Zustand	Neuware