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Author Thomas, Damion L., author.

Title Globetrotting : African American athletes and Cold war politics / Damion L. Thomas.

Publication Info. Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, [2012]
©2012
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Description 1 online resource (x, 209 pages).
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Series Sport and society
Sport and society.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The showcase African American: Paul Robeson, Jackie Robinson, and the politics of Cold War prosperity and repression -- "Spreading the gospel of basketball": the Harlem Globetrotters, the State Department, and the minstrel tradition, 1945-54 -- Playing politics: the formation of the U.S. Cold War-era athletic foreign policy -- "The good Negroes": propaganda and the racial crisis -- Black power: international politics and the revolt of the black athlete.
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Subject African Americans -- Sports -- History.
African Americans.
Sports.
History.
Sports -- United States -- History.
United States.
African American athletes -- Social conditions.
African American athletes -- Social conditions.
African American athletes.
Racism in sports -- United States.
Racism in sports.
Discrimination in sports -- United States.
Discrimination in sports.
Cold War -- Influence.
Cold War (1945-1989)
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1945-1989
1945 - 1989
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Thomas, Damion L. Globetrotting. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2012 9780252037177 (DLC) 2012009672 (OCoLC)783861910
ISBN 0252037170
9780252037177
9781283714372 electronic book
128371437X electronic book
9780252094293 electronic book
0252094298 electronic book

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