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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 1940s U.S. women's track and field -- "A nationwide community project": Althea Gibson, class, and the racial politics of 1950s 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 1960s and 1970s -- "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. |
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9781610755429 (electronic bk.) |
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1610755421 (electronic bk.) |
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1306488915 (electronic bk.) |
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9781306488914 (electronic bk.) |
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9781557286581 |
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1557286582 |
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