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  • The Moynihan Myth

    Race and a National Icon

    by John Hoberman ...
    In 1965, The Negro Family: The Case for National Action, or the Moynihan Report, affirmed future U.S. senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s status as his era’s preeminent expert on race in the United States. Hailed as objective and held up as an exemplar of the public intellectual, Moynihan in fact contributed little original thought and led a segregated social and intellectual life that severely ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Drug Games

    The International Olympic Committee and the Politics of Doping, 1960–2008

    by Thomas M. Hunt ...
    Series series Terry and Jan Todd Series on Physical Culture and Sports
    On August 26, 1960, twenty-three-year-old Danish cyclist Knud Jensen, competing in that year's Rome Olympic Games, suddenly fell from his bike and fractured his skull. His death hours later led to rumors that performance-enhancing drugs were in his system. Though certainly not the first instance of doping in the Olympic Games, Jensen's death serves as the starting point for Thomas M. Hunt's ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Sport and Political Ideology

    by John Hoberman ...
    Across the modern political spectrum, left-wing and right-wing political theorists have invested sport with ideological significance. That significance, however, varies distinctively and characteristically with the ideology—a phenomenon John Hoberman terms "ideological differentiation." Taking this phenomenon as its point of departure, this provocative work interprets the major sport ideologies of ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Jews, Sports, and the Rites of Citizenship

    by Jack Kugelmass, John Hoberman, Stephen J Whitfield, Joshua Shanes, Anat Helman, Jack Jacobs, Harvey E Goldberg, Andre Levy, Tamir Sorek, Edward Shapiro0, Jeffrey S. Gurock1 ...
    To many, an association between Jews and sports seems almost oxymoronic--yet Jews have been prominent in boxing, basketball, and fencing, and some would argue that hurler Sandy Koufax is America's greatest athlete ever. In Jews, Sports, and the Rites of Citizenship, Jack Kugelmass shows that sports--significant in constructing nations and in determining their degree of exclusivity--also figures ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Darwin's Athletes

    How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race

    by John Hoberman ...
    DARWIN'S ATHLETES focuses on society's fixation with black athletic achievement. Hoberman argues that this obsession has come to play a troubling role in African American life and our country's race relations. Rich, flamboyant superstars lend credence to age-old prejudices, recycled "scientific" theories denigrating black intelligence, and stereotypes of black violence. This portrayal of black ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Drugs and Sport

    Edited by Verner Møller, Ivan Waddington, John Hoberman ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Doping has become one of the most important and high-profile issues in contemporary sport. Shocking cases such as that of Lance Armstrong and the US Postal cycling team have exposed the complicated relationships between athletes, teams, physicians, sports governing bodies, drugs providers, and judicial systems, all locked in a constant struggle for competitive advantage.The Routledge Handbook of ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Dopers in Uniform

    The Hidden World of Police on Steroids

    by John Hoberman ...
    Series series Terry and Jan Todd Series on Physical Culture and Sports
    The recorded use of deadly force against unarmed suspects and sustained protest from the Black Lives Matter movement, among others, have ignited a national debate about excessive violence in American policing. Missing from the debate, however, is any discussion of a factor that is almost certainly contributing to the violence—the use of anabolic steroids by police officers. Mounting evidence from ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Black and Blue

    The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism

    by John Hoberman ...
    Black & Blue is the first systematic description of how American doctors think about racial differences and how this kind of thinking affects the treatment of their black patients. The standard studies of medical racism examine past medical abuses of black people and do not address the racially motivated thinking and behaviors of physicians practicing medicine today.Black & Blue penetrates the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    In Defense of Black Studies

    Edited by Colin Kaepernick, Robin D. G. Kelley, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor ...
    "The centuries-long attack on Black history represents a strike against our very worth, brilliance, and value. We’re ready to fight back. And when we fight, we win." —Colin KaepernickSince its founding as a discipline, Black Studies has been under relentless attack by social and political forces seeking to discredit and neutralize it. Our History Has Always Been Contraband was born out of an ... Read more

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  • Renewing Black Intellectual History

    The Ideological and Material Foundations of African American Thought

    by Adolph Reed, Kenneth W. Warren ...
    Reflecting critically on the discipline of African American studies is a complicated undertaking. Making sense of the black American experience requires situating it within the larger cultural, political-economic, and ideological dynamics that shape American life. This volume moves away from privileging racial commonality as the fulcrum of inquiry and moves toward observing the quality of the ... Read more

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  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Football

    Score a Touchdown with Your Newfound Football Savvy

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    Don't feel left out in the roar of the crowdFootball is the most popular sport in America today. It's also the most complicated, especially to those who watch their loved ones hibernate in football heaven from September to February. Here's the book that levels the playing field for novices, giving them a simple, clear, and comprehensive guide worthy of a Lombardi Trophy. Finally, get in the game ... Read more

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  • Intellectuals and Race

    by Thomas Sowell ...
    Thomas Sowell's incisive critique of the intellectuals' destructive role in shaping ideas about race in America*Intellectuals and Race is a radical book in the original sense of one that goes to the root of the problem. The role of intellectuals in racial strife is explored in an international context that puts the American experience in a wholly new light.The views of individual intellectuals ... Read more

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