The heritage : Black Athletes, a divided America, and the politics of patriotism / Howard Bryant.
2018
GV583 .B753 2018eb
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The heritage : Black Athletes, a divided America, and the politics of patriotism / Howard Bryant.
ISBN
9780807027004 (electronic book)
0807027006 (electronic book)
9780807026991
0807027006 (electronic book)
9780807026991
Published
Boston : Beacon Press, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xv, 272 pages)
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GV583 .B753 2018eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.483
Summary
"It used to be that politics and sports were as separate from one another as church and state. The ballfield was an escape from the world's worst problems, top athletes were treated like heroes, and cheering for the home team was as easy and innocent as hot dogs and beer. "No news on the sports page" was a governing principle in newsrooms. That was then. Today, sports arenas have been transformed into staging grounds for American patriotism and the hero worship of law enforcement. Teams wear camouflage jerseys to honor those who serve; police officers throw out first pitches; soldiers surprise their families with homecomings at halftime. Sports and politics are decidedly entwined. But as journalist Howard Bryant reveals, this has always been more complicated for black athletes, who from the start, were committing a political act simply by being on the field. In fact, among all black employees in twentieth-century America, perhaps no other group had more outsized influence and power than ballplayers. The immense social responsibilities that came with the role is part of the black athletic heritage. It is a heritage built by the influence of the superstardom and radical politics of Paul Robeson, Jackie Robinson, Muhammad Ali, Tommie Smith, and John Carlos through the 1960s; undermined by apolitical, corporate-friendly 'transcenders of race, ' O.J. Simpson, Michael Jordan, and Tiger Woods in the following decades; and reclaimed today by the likes of LeBron James, Colin Kaepernick, and Carmelo Anthony"--Book jacket flap.
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Table of Contents
Prologue: Here I stand
Part one: Rise and fall
Stick to sports
The good Americans
Juice
Jump, man
Part two: War games
"Our way of life"
The sanitation department
Props
Part three: the awakening
Ferguson
A seat at the table
"Who is the patriot?"
Epilogue: The peacemakers.
Part one: Rise and fall
Stick to sports
The good Americans
Juice
Jump, man
Part two: War games
"Our way of life"
The sanitation department
Props
Part three: the awakening
Ferguson
A seat at the table
"Who is the patriot?"
Epilogue: The peacemakers.