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Black Mercuries - African American Athletes, Race, and the Modern Olympic Games (Hardcover)
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Black Mercuries - African American Athletes, Race, and the Modern Olympic Games (Hardcover)
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The first book to fully chronicle the struggles and triumphs of
African American athletes in the Modern Olympic summer games. In
the modern Olympic Games, from 1896 through the present, African
American athletes have sought to honor themselves, their race, and
their nation on the global stage. But even as these incredible
athletes have served to promote visions of racial harmony in the
supposedly-apolitical Olympic setting, many have also bravely used
the games as a means to bring attention to racial disparities in
their country and around the world. In Black Mercuries: African
American Athletes, Race, and the Modern Olympic Games, David K.
Wiggins, Kevin B. Witherspoon, and Mark Dyreson explore in detail
the varied experiences of African American athletes, specifically
in the summer games. They examine the lives and careers of such
luminaries as Jesse Owens, Rafer Johnson, Wilma Rudolph, Florence
Griffith-Joyner, Michael Johnson, and Simone Biles, but also many
African American Olympians who have garnered relatively little
attention and whose names have largely been lost from historical
memory. In recounting the stories of these Black Olympians, Black
Mercuries makes clear that their superior athletic skills did not
always shield them from the racial tropes and insensitivity spewed
by fellow athletes, the media, spectators, and many others. Yet, in
part because of the struggles they faced, African American
Olympians have been extraordinarily important symbolically
throughout Olympic history, serving as role models to future Black
athletes and often putting their careers on the line to speak out
against enduring racial inequality and discriminatory practices in
all walks of life.
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