001399539 000__ 03328cam\a2200409\a\4500 001399539 001__ 1399539 001399539 005__ 20220628120730.0 001399539 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001399539 007__ cr\cnunnnunnun 001399539 008__ 220628s2011\\\\mau\\\\\ob\\\\000\0\eng\d 001399539 010__ $$z2010047288 001399539 020__ $$a9780674060869$$qelectronic book 001399539 020__ $$z9780674050983 001399539 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn754841337 001399539 035__ $$a(CaPaEBR)ebr10492934 001399539 037__ $$a10.4159/harvard.9780674060869$$bDOI 001399539 040__ $$aCaPaEBR$$cCaPaEBR 001399539 043__ $$an-us--- 001399539 05014 $$aGV583$$b.E26 2011eb 001399539 08204 $$a796.092/2$$222 001399539 1001_ $$aEarly, Gerald Lyn. 001399539 24512 $$aA level playing field$$h[electronic resource] :$$bAfrican American athletes and the republic of sports /$$cGerald L. Early. 001399539 260__ $$aCambridge, Mass. :$$bHarvard University Press,$$c2011. 001399539 300__ $$a1 online resource (xiii, 263 p.) 001399539 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 233-263). 001399539 5050_ $$aLeveling the Playing Field. When worlds collide: Jackie Robinson, Paul Robeson, Harry Truman, and the Korean War -- Curt Flood, gratitude, and the image of baseball -- Donovan McNabb, Rush Limbaugh, and the making of the Black quarterback -- Heroism and the Republic of Sports. American integration, Black heroism, and the meaning of Jackie Robinson -- Performance and reality: race, sports, and the modern world -- Where have we gone, Mr. Robinson? 001399539 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001399539 520__ $$aAs Americans, we believe there ought to be a level playing field for everyone. Even if we don't expect to finish first, we do expect a fair start. Only in sports have African Americans actually found that elusive level ground. But at the same time, black players offer an ironic perspective on the athlete hero, for they represent a group historically held to be without social honor. In this collection of sports essays the author, a noted cultural critic investigates these contradictions as they play out in the sports world and in our deeper attitudes toward the athletes we glorify. He addresses a half century of heated cultural issues ranging from integration to the use of performance enhancing drugs. Writing about Jackie Robinson and Curt Flood, he reconstructs pivotal moments in their lives and explains how the culture, politics, and economics of sport turned with them. Taking on the subtexts, racial and otherwise, of the controversy over remarks Rush Limbaugh made about quarterback Donovan McNabb, he restores the political consequence to an event most commentators at the time approached with predictable bluster. The essays in this book circle around two perennial questions: What other, invisible contests unfold when we watch a sporting event? What desires and anxieties are encoded in our worship of (or disdain for) high performance athletes? These essays are based on the Alain Locke lectures at Harvard University's Du Bois Institute. 001399539 650_0 $$aAfrican American athletes$$xHistory. 001399539 650_0 $$aSports$$zUnited States$$xHistory. 001399539 650_0 $$aDiscrimination in sports$$zUnited States$$xHistory. 001399539 650_0 $$aAfrican American athletes$$xSocial conditions. 001399539 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aEarly, Gerald Lyn.$$tLevel playing field.$$dCambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011$$z9780674050983$$w(DLC) 2010047288$$w(OCoLC)676725371 001399539 85280 $$bebk$$hProQuest Ebook Central Academic Complete 001399539 85640 $$3ProQuest Ebook Central Academic Complete$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/usiricelib/Doc?id=10492934$$zOnline Access 001399539 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:449997$$pGLOBAL_SET 001399539 980__ $$aEBOOK 001399539 980__ $$aBIB 001399539 982__ $$aEbook 001399539 983__ $$aOnline