A spectacular leap : black women athletes in twentieth-century America / / Jennifer H. Lansbury
| A spectacular leap : black women athletes in twentieth-century America / / Jennifer H. Lansbury |
| Autore | Lansbury Jennifer H. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Fayetteville : , : University of Arkansas Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (388 p.) |
| Disciplina |
796.089/96073
796.08996073 |
| Soggetto topico |
African American women athletes - 20th century
Sports for women - Social aspects |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-61075-542-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Queen of the courts: Ora Washington and the emergence of America's first black female sport celebrity -- "The Tuskegee flash": Alice Coachman and the challenges of 1940's U.S. women's track and field -- "A nationwide community project": Althea Gibson, class, and the racial politics of 1950's black tennis -- "Foxes, not oxes": Wilma Rudolph and the de-marginalization of American women's track and field -- "The Swiftie from Tennessee State": Wyomia Tyus and the racial reality of black women track athletes in the 1960's and 1970's -- "A Jackie of all trades": Jackie Joyner-Kersee and the challenges of being the world's greatest female athlete -- Performance-enhanced athletes and "ghetto Cinderellas": black women athletes enter the twenty-first century. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910464542003321 |
Lansbury Jennifer H.
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| Fayetteville : , : University of Arkansas Press, , 2014 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A spectacular leap : black women athletes in twentieth-century America / / Jennifer H. Lansbury
| A spectacular leap : black women athletes in twentieth-century America / / Jennifer H. Lansbury |
| Autore | Lansbury Jennifer H. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Fayetteville : , : University of Arkansas Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (388 p.) |
| Disciplina |
796.089/96073
796.08996073 |
| Soggetto topico |
African American women athletes - 20th century
Sports for women - Social aspects |
| ISBN | 1-61075-542-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Queen of the courts: Ora Washington and the emergence of America's first black female sport celebrity -- "The Tuskegee flash": Alice Coachman and the challenges of 1940's U.S. women's track and field -- "A nationwide community project": Althea Gibson, class, and the racial politics of 1950's black tennis -- "Foxes, not oxes": Wilma Rudolph and the de-marginalization of American women's track and field -- "The Swiftie from Tennessee State": Wyomia Tyus and the racial reality of black women track athletes in the 1960's and 1970's -- "A Jackie of all trades": Jackie Joyner-Kersee and the challenges of being the world's greatest female athlete -- Performance-enhanced athletes and "ghetto Cinderellas": black women athletes enter the twenty-first century. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789105703321 |
Lansbury Jennifer H.
|
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| Fayetteville : , : University of Arkansas Press, , 2014 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A spectacular leap : black women athletes in twentieth-century America / / Jennifer H. Lansbury
| A spectacular leap : black women athletes in twentieth-century America / / Jennifer H. Lansbury |
| Autore | Lansbury Jennifer H. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Fayetteville : , : University of Arkansas Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (388 p.) |
| Disciplina |
796.089/96073
796.08996073 |
| Soggetto topico |
African American women athletes - 20th century
Sports for women - Social aspects |
| ISBN | 1-61075-542-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Queen of the courts: Ora Washington and the emergence of America's first black female sport celebrity -- "The Tuskegee flash": Alice Coachman and the challenges of 1940's U.S. women's track and field -- "A nationwide community project": Althea Gibson, class, and the racial politics of 1950's black tennis -- "Foxes, not oxes": Wilma Rudolph and the de-marginalization of American women's track and field -- "The Swiftie from Tennessee State": Wyomia Tyus and the racial reality of black women track athletes in the 1960's and 1970's -- "A Jackie of all trades": Jackie Joyner-Kersee and the challenges of being the world's greatest female athlete -- Performance-enhanced athletes and "ghetto Cinderellas": black women athletes enter the twenty-first century. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815564303321 |
Lansbury Jennifer H.
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| Fayetteville : , : University of Arkansas Press, , 2014 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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