Product Description: Race, Sport and the American Dream reports the main findings of a long term research project investigating the scope and consequences of the deepening relationship between African American males and the institution of sport. While there is some scholarly literature on the topic, author Earl Smith tries to understand through this project how sport has changed the nature of African American Civil Society and has come to be a major influence on economic opportunities, schooling and the shaping of African American family life...read more

Product Description: History of African American athletes and their contributions to sports in the United States.

Product Description: Athletes have an amazing influence on young people. Sometimes this influence backfires, but sometimes it illuminates the importance of hard work and dedication in a way that young people can understand. Not every sports superstar makes their way into the history books, but when someone inspires generations of people to strive for their dreams it is hard to forget them...read more

Product Description: This book chronicles the mammoth contributions of Dr. Harry Edwards as a social activist, scholar, and public servant over the span of three decades. Empowered by the Civil Rights Movement and the constructs of Black Power, Dr. Harry Edwards emerged as a general in the fight for social justice, equality and human rights...read more

Commodified and Criminalized examines the centrality of sport to discussions of racial ideologies and racist practices in the 21st century. It disputes familiar refrains of racial progress, arguing that athletes sit in a contradictory position masked by the logics of new racism and dominant white racial frames. Contributors discuss athletes ranging from Tiger Woods and Serena Williams to Freddy Adu and Shani Davis.Through dynamic case studies, Commodified and Criminalized unpacks the conversation between black athletes and colorblind discourse, while challenging the assumptions of contemporary sports culture. The contributors in this provocative collection push the conversation beyond the playing field and beyond the racial landscape of sports culture to explore the connections between sports representations and a broader history of racialized violence.

Product Description: Ballers of the New School is one of the first and best books to come along that effectively explains contemporary athletes and the public response to them.  It asks readers to consider the role of race in the sweaty as well as the sweat-free zones of sport...read more

A look at race, sport, and society in twenty-first century America addresses questions concerning the state of American American participation in sports, including consideration of the problems faced by African Americans in attempting to break through the glass ceiling to achieve strong decision-making roles.

This informative book gives readers the whole history of blacks in baseball, from its infancy in black colleges to the present, covering the establishment of both major leagues and the Negro Leagues, Jackie Robinson's reintegration of professional sports, and Curt Flood's struggle to establish a free agency.

Product Description: "In her excellent new book, Amy Bass uses the famous 'black power' podium salute by sprinters John Carlos and Tommie Smith as the centerpiece of her expansive examination of the black athlete in America." -Boston Globe"Amy Bass's powerful and nuanced account of the Olympic Project for Human Rights gives us the story behind this picture-a story that will change our conception of the history of sport and racial politics...read more

Recounts the struggles and triumphs of athletes who have helped to open their sports to participants who are African American or women, or who have disablities, including Jackie Robinson, Billie Jean King, and Jim Abbott.

Product Description: This book discusses the role that sport participation plays in the lives of black male high school students. As a former professional athlete himself, the author brings a first-hand personal quality to this study. As an educator he strives to counteract the problems associated with students who place sports participation ahead of academic achievement...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Research on African American athletes generally fo­cuses on negative stereotypes of physical prowess, and socially controversial themes. Most studies in­vestigate racism, prejudice, discrimination, and ex­ploitation experienced by African American athletes...read more

"Conceptually very rich and broad . . . Will outlive the continuous changes that are taking place in the territory of the former Soviet Union."--A. Reza Sheikholeslami, Oriental Institute, St. Antony's College, Oxford University "A multidisciplinary as well as a multicultural approach to the study of Central Asia. . . .  An informative account of history, politics, religions, and the social complexities of the Central Asian societies."--Manochehr Dorraj, Texas Christian UniversityLeading Western, Russian, and Central Asian scholars examine here the domestic and international dynamics of Muslim Central Asia and the Caucasus.  They address the two circumstances that continue to affect the Muslim states of the former Soviet Union:  the enduring impact of the Soviet experience on ethno-social and political life, and the prospects for the recovery of their own identities now that the Soviet system has collapsed. The authors of these essays suggest that the symbiosis of these two forces will continue to characterize political and social developments in Central Asia and the Caucasus for years to come.  ContentsThe Emerging Muslim States of Central Asia and the Caucasus, by Mohiaddin MesbahiPart 1.  Russia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus:  Ethnicity and IslamThe Ethnohistorical Dynamics of Muslim Societies within Russia and the CIS, by Sergei A. PanarinThe Emerging Central Asia: Ethnic and Religious Factions, by Eden NabyMuslim Central Asia:  Soviet Development Legacies and Future Challenges, by M. Nazif ShahraniPart 2.  The New Muslim States:  The North Caucasus and AzerbaijanThe "Internal" Muslim Factor in the Politics of Russia:  Tatarstan and the North Caucasus, by Marie Bennigsen BroxupAzerbaijan, by Yuri N. Zinin and Alexei V. MaleshenkoPart 3.  The New Muslim States:  Central AsiaKazakhstan, by Martha Brill OlcottUzbekistan, by Zahid I. MunavvarovKyrgyzstan, by Alexander O. FilonykTadjikistan, by Aziz NiyaziTurkmenistan, by Andrei G. NedvetskyPart 4:  Russia and the Former Soviet South:  The New GeopoliticsThe Disintegration of the Soviet Eurasian Empire: An Ongoing Debate, by Milan L. HaunerGreat Power Ideology and the Muslim Nations of the CIS, by Arthur SagdeevCentral Asia and the Middle East:  The Emerging Links, by Anthony HymanRussia and the Geopolitics of the Muslim South, by Mohiaddin MesbahiMohiaddin Mesbahi is associate professor of international relations at Florida International University, Miami.  He has published several studies of Soviet-Iranian relations and Central Asian security and is the editor of Russia and the Third World in the Post-Soviet Era (UPF, 1994).

A history of black athletes spanning three hundred years traces the history of sports to African, culture, features profiles of black athletic stars, and explores the impact of the Emancipation Proclamation and other events on black sports (view table of contents)

Product Description: This informative book gives readers the whole history of blacks in baseball, from its infancy in black colleges to the present, covering the establishment of both major leagues and the Negro Leagues, Jackie Robinson's reintegration of professional sports, and Curt Flood's struggle to establish a free agency...read more

Harry Edwards discusses what he considers to be the exploitation and suffering of the American black athlete

Traces the young Negro's outstanding tennis career from his friendship with Ronald Charity, a tennis pro, to his role in returning the Davis Cup to the U.S. in 1968