What's my name, fool? : sports and resistance in the United States / Dave Zirin.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Chicago : Haymarket Books, 2005.Description: 293 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1931859205
  • 9781931859202
Other title:
  • Sports and resistance in the United States
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • GV 706.5 .Z57 2005
Contents:
Foreword / by David Meggyesy -- Introduction: Sports -- an offer we can't refuse -- It all starts with Lester Rodney -- Jackie Robinson and the politics of stealing home -- Rumble young man rumble : Muhammad Ali and the 1960s -- The 1968 olympics raise the bar -- We just really hate to lose : unions and sports -- In the shadow of Ali : sports, war, and resistance today -- Gone with the wind? : sports, race, and the modern athlete -- Taking care of t. c.b. : sports, sexism, and gay bashing -- Games that bosses play -- Stir of echoes : a new sporting resistance? -- Afterword: We are the greatest.
Summary: Drawing on original interviews, the author examines how a number of athletes are standing up for peace and civil liberty.
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Foreword / by David Meggyesy -- Introduction: Sports -- an offer we can't refuse -- It all starts with Lester Rodney -- Jackie Robinson and the politics of stealing home -- Rumble young man rumble : Muhammad Ali and the 1960s -- The 1968 olympics raise the bar -- We just really hate to lose : unions and sports -- In the shadow of Ali : sports, war, and resistance today -- Gone with the wind? : sports, race, and the modern athlete -- Taking care of t. c.b. : sports, sexism, and gay bashing -- Games that bosses play -- Stir of echoes : a new sporting resistance? -- Afterword: We are the greatest.

Drawing on original interviews, the author examines how a number of athletes are standing up for peace and civil liberty.

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