001478961 000__ 05991nam\a22009615i\4500 001478961 001__ 1478961 001478961 003__ DE-B1597 001478961 005__ 20231026035005.0 001478961 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001478961 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001478961 008__ 210830t20112011mau\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001478961 019__ $$a(OCoLC)979746507 001478961 020__ $$a9780674060869 001478961 0247_ $$a10.4159/harvard.9780674060869$$2doi 001478961 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)178311 001478961 035__ $$a(OCoLC)754841337 001478961 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001478961 0410_ $$aeng 001478961 044__ $$amau$$cUS-MA 001478961 050_4 $$aGV583$$b.E26 2011eb 001478961 072_7 $$aSPO012000$$2bisacsh 001478961 08204 $$a796.092/2$$222 001478961 1001_ $$aEarly, Gerald Lyn , $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001478961 24512 $$aA Level Playing Field :$$bAfrican American Athletes and the Republic of Sports /$$cGerald Lyn Early. 001478961 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA : $$bHarvard University Press, $$c[2011] 001478961 264_4 $$c©2011 001478961 300__ $$a1 online resource (288 p.) 001478961 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001478961 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001478961 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001478961 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001478961 4900_ $$aAlain Locke Lecture Series 001478961 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tIntroduction -- $$tPART I. Leveling the Playing Field -- $$t1. When Worlds Collide: Jackie Robinson, Paul Robeson, Harry Truman, and the Korean War -- $$t2. Curt Flood, Gratitude, and the Image of Baseball -- $$t3. Donovan McNabb, Rush Limbaugh, and the Making of the Black Quarterback -- $$tPART II. Heroism and the Republic of Sports -- $$t4. American Integration, Black Heroism, and the Meaning of Jackie Robinson -- $$t5. Performance and Reality: Race, Sports, and the Modern World -- $$t6. Where Have We Gone, Mr. Robinson? -- $$tNotes 001478961 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001478961 520__ $$aAs Americans, we believe there ought to be a level playing field for everyone. Even if we don't expect to finish first, we do expect a fair start. Only in sports have African Americans actually found that elusive level ground. But at the same time, black players offer an ironic perspective on the athlete-hero, for they represent a group historically held to be without social honor.In his first new collection of sports essays since Tuxedo Junction (1989), the noted cultural critic Gerald Early investigates these contradictions as they play out in the sports world and in our deeper attitudes toward the athletes we glorify. Early addresses a half-century of heated cultural issues ranging from integration to the use of performance-enhancing drugs. Writing about Jackie Robinson and Curt Flood, he reconstructs pivotal moments in their lives and explains how the culture, politics, and economics of sport turned with them. Taking on the subtexts, racial and otherwise, of the controversy over remarks Rush Limbaugh made about quarterback Donovan McNabb, Early restores the political consequence to an event most commentators at the time approached with predictable bluster. The essays in this book circle around two perennial questions: What other, invisible contests unfold when we watch a sporting event? What desires and anxieties are encoded in our worship of (or disdain for) high-performance athletes?These essays are based on the Alain Locke lectures at Harvard University's Du Bois Institute. 001478961 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001478961 546__ $$aIn English. 001478961 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. 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