Passing the Baton : : Black Women Track Stars and American Identity
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Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Miami, 2018, titled Sprints of citizenship : black women track stars and the making of modern citizenship in the United States and Jamaica, 1946-1964.
Raising the bar : Alice Coachman and the boundaries of postwar American identity, 1946-1948 -- Sprints of citizenship : identity politics and black women's athleticism, 1951-1952 -- Passing the baton toward belonging : Mae Faggs and the making of the Americanness of black American track women, 1954-1956 -- Winning as American women : the heteronormativity of black women athletic heroines, 1958-1960 -- "Olympian quintessence" : Wilma Rudolph, athletic femininity, and American iconicity, 1960-1962 -- Conclusion. The precarity of the baton pass : race, gender, and the enduring barriers to American belonging.
"After World War II, the United States used international sport to promote democratic values and its image of an ideal citizen. But African American women excelling in track and field upset such notions. Cat M. Ariail examines how athletes such as Alice Coachman, Mae Faggs, and Wilma Rudolph forced American sport cultures-both white and Black-to reckon with the athleticism of African American women. Marginalized still further in a low-profile sport, young Black women nonetheless bypassed barriers to represent their country. Their athletic success soon threatened postwar America's dominant ideas about race, gender, sexuality, and national identity. As Ariail shows, the wider culture defused these radical challenges by locking the athletes within roles that stressed conservative forms of femininity, blackness, and citizenship"-- Provided by publisher.
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Sport and society
PUBLISHED
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2020]
Year Published: 2020
Description: x, 230 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780252043482
0252043480
9780252085383
0252085388
SUBJECTS
African American women track and field athletes -- History -- 20th century.
African American women track and field athletes -- Social conditions.
African American women -- Race identity.
African American women -- Social conditions.
Track and field for women -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Discrimination in sports -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- History -- 20th century.