03366nam 2200649Ia 450 991045939380332120200520144314.01-282-94092-997866129409271-61703-044-9(CKB)2670000000061789(EBL)619194(OCoLC)690213948(SSID)ssj0000426803(PQKBManifestationID)11307449(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000426803(PQKBWorkID)10389722(PQKB)11615483(StDuBDS)EDZ0000206527(MiAaPQ)EBC619194(MdBmJHUP)muse13568(Au-PeEL)EBL619194(CaPaEBR)ebr10436088(EXLCZ)99267000000006178920080201d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrReconstructing fame[electronic resource] sport, race, and evolving reputations /edited by David C. Ogden and Joel Nathan RosenJackson University Press of Mississippic20081 online resource (165 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-60473-091-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction: Examining Reputations within a Cultural Context; PART I. THE ARCHETYPES; Constructing Banality: The Trivialization of the Jackie Robinson Legacy; Roberto Clemente: From Ignominy to Icon; PART II. THE CHERISHED DEAD; Curt Flood: "Death Is a Slave's Freedom": His Fight against Baseball, History, and White Supremacy; Paul Robeson: Honor and the Politics of Dignity; Remaking an Overlooked Icon: The Reconstruction of Jim Thorpe; PART III. THE LIVING MODELS; Bill Russell: From Revulsion to ResurrectionRacing after Smith and Carlos: Revisiting Those Fists Some Forty Years HenceAfterword: The Globalization of Vilification; The Localization of Redemption; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; ZWith contributions by Prosper Godonoo, Urla Hill, C. Richard King, David J. Leonard, Jack Lule, Murry Nelson, David C. Ogden, Robert W. Reising, and Joel Nathan Rosen Reconstructing Fame: Sport, Race, and Evolving Reputations includes essays on Jackie Robinson, Roberto Clemente, Curt Flood, Paul Robeson, Jim Thorpe, Bill Russell, Tommie Smith, and John Carlos. The essayists in this volume write about twentieth-century athletes whose careers were affected by racism and whose post-career reputations have improved as society's understanding of race changed. Contributors attempt to clarify the stoRacism in sportsUnited StatesHistoryAthletesUnited StatesPublic opinionPublic opinionUnited StatesElectronic books.Racism in sportsHistory.AthletesPublic opinion.Public opinion796.089796/.089Ogden David C1034401Rosen Joel Nathan1961-1034402MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459393803321Reconstructing fame2463930UNINA