What's My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States

Name: What's My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States
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ISBN: 9781931859202

ISBN-10: 1931859205

ISBN-13: 9781931859202

Edition: 2005

Authors: Dave Zirin, Chuck D.

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"Zirin is America's best sportswriter."-Lee Ballinger, Rock and Rap Confidential "Zirin is one of the brightest, most audacious voices I can remember on the sportswriting scene, and my memory goes back to the 1920s."-Lester Rodney, N.Y. Daily Worker sports editor, 1936__1958 "Zirin has an amazing talent for covering the sports and politics beat. Ranging like a great shortstop, he scoops up everything! He profiles the courageous and inspiring athletes who are standing up for peace and civil liberties in this repressive age. A must read!"-Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive "This is cutting-edge analysis delivered with wit and compassion."-Mike Marqusee, author, Redemption Song: Muhammad…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Publication date: 7/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 300
Size: 5.30" wide x 7.90" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Zirin is Editor of the Prince George's Post (Maryland) and writes the weekly column Edge of Sports (edgeofsports.com). He is a Senior Writer at Basketball.com and writes for The Source.



Acknowledgements


Foreword



Introduction: Sports-An Offer We Can't Refuse



It All Starts With Lester Rodney



Jackie Robinson and the Politics of Stealing Home



Rumble, Young Man, Rumble: Muhammad Ali and the 1960s



The 1968 Olympics Raise the Bar



"We Just Really Hate to Lose": Unions and Sports



In the Shadow of Ali: Sports, War, and Resistance Today



Gone With the Wind?: Sports, Race, and the Modern Athlete



Taking Care of T.C.B.: Sports, Sexism, and Gay Bashing



Games That Bosses Play



Stir of Echoes: A New Sporting Resistance?


Afterword: We Are the Greatest