| Author |
Rhoden, William C.
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| Publication |
New York [New York] : Three Rivers Press, 2006.
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| Copyright date |
©2006 |
| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 286 pages) |
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text file |
| Call # |
eBOOK |
| Summary |
From Jackie Robinson to Muhammad Ali and Arthur Ashe, African American athletes have been at the center of modern culture, their on-the-field heroics admired and stratospheric earnings envied. But for all their money, fame, and achievement, says New York Times columnist William C. Rhoden, black athletes still find themselves on the periphery of true power in the multibillion-dollar industry their talent built. Provocative and controversial, Rhoden's $40 Million Slaves weaves a compelling narrative of black athletes in the United States, from the plantation to their beginnings in nineteenth-century boxing rings to the history-making accomplishments of notable figures such as Jesse Owens, Althea Gibson, and Willie Mays. Rhoden reveals that black athletes' "evolution" has merely been a journey from literal plantations'where sports were introduced as diversions to quell revolutionary stirrings'to today's figurative ones, in the form of collegiate and professional sports programs. He details the "conveyor belt" that brings kids from inner cities and small towns to big-time programs, where they're cut off from their roots and exploited by team owners, sports agents, and the media. He also sets his sights on athletes like Michael Jordan, who he says have abdicated their responsibility to the community with an apathy that borders on treason. The power black athletes have today is as limited as when masters forced their slaves to race and fight. The primary difference is, today's shackles are often the athletes' own making. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-278) and index. |
| Contents |
The race begins : the dilemma of illusion -- The plantation : the dilemma of physical bondage -- The jockey syndrome : the dilemma of exclusion -- The Negro leagues : the dilemma of myopia -- Integration : the dilemma of inclusion without power -- Style : the dilemma of appropriation -- The conveyor belt : the dilemma of alienation -- The river Jordan : the dilemma of neutrality -- Ain't I a woman? : the dilemma of the double burden -- The $40 million dollar slave : the dilemma of wealth without control -- The one who got away? : the dilemma of ownership. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
African American athletes -- History.
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Sports -- United States -- History.
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Discrimination in sports -- United States -- History.
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African American athletes -- Social conditions.
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Recreation. |
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GAMES -- Gambling -- Sports.
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Business Aspects.
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Essays.
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- History.
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Reference.
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Sports.
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African American athletes. (OCoLC)fst00799025
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African American athletes -- Social conditions.
(OCoLC)fst00799026
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Discrimination in sports. (OCoLC)fst00895130
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Sports. (OCoLC)fst01130432
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155 |
| Genre |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Electronic books.
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| Addl. Author |
OverDrive, Inc.
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| Alt Title |
Forty million dollar slaves |
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40 million dollar slaves |
| Related To |
Print version: Rhoden, William C. $40 million slaves. 1st ed. New York : Crown Publishers, c2006 0609601202 (DLC) 2005034952 (OCoLC)62430822 |
| ISBN |
9780307565747 (electronic bk.) |
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0307565742 (electronic bk.) |
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