Taboo Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We're Afraid to Talk about It

Name: Taboo Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We're Afraid to Talk about It
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ISBN: 9781586480264

ISBN-10: 158648026X

ISBN-13: 9781586480264

Edition: 2000

Authors: Jon Entine, Gary Salles, Jay T. Kearney

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Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Publication date: 1/10/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Preface: Reflections on Sports and the Genetic Revolution


Foreword




The Taboo



Breaking the Taboo on Race and Sports



The Education of Sir Roger



The Evidence



By the Numbers



The Most Level Playing Field



Nature's Experiment: The "Kenyan Miracle"



History of Race Science and Sports



"More Brains or More ..."



Evolution (of Great Athletes)



Race Without Color: The History of Human Differences



The Origins of Race Science



The Segregation and Integration of Sports



The Superiority of White Athletes



Jack Johnson in the Ring Against Jim Crow



American Eugenics



Jesse Owens and the German Race



A Knockout Blow to Race Science



The "Scheming, Flashy Trickiness" of Jews



Nature or Nurture?



The Integration of Sports



The Sixties



Sports and IQ



Winning the Genetic Lottery



The Environmentalist Case Against Innate Black Superiority in Sports



What About Women?



The Superiority of White Female Athletes



East Germany's Sports Machine



The Renaissance of the Black Female Athlete



Final Thoughts



A Genteel Way to Say "Nigger"?


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index