Passing the Baton - Black Women Track Stars and American Identity

List of contents

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction

Chapter 1. Raising the Bar: Alice Coachman and the Boundaries of Postwar American Identity, 1946-1948

Chapter 2. Sprints of Citizenship: Identity Politics and Black Women's Athleticism, 1951-1952

Chapter 3. Passing the Baton Toward Belonging: Mae Faggs and the Making of the Americanness of Black American Track Women, 1954-1956

Chapter 4. Winning as American Women: The Heteronormativity of Black Women Athletic Heroines, 1958-1960

Chapter 5. "Olympian Quintessence": Wilma Rudolph, Athletic Femininity, and American Iconicity, 1960-1962

Conclusion. The Precarity of the Baton Pass: Race, Gender, and the Enduring Barriers to American Belonging

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Cat M. Ariail

Product details

• Authors: Cat M Ariail, Cat M. Ariail
• Publisher: University Of Illinois Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9780252085383
• ISBN: 978-0-252-08538-3
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Sport and Society
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > Motorsport, motorcycle sport, bicycle sport, aviation sport; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore