Marcy S Sacks

Joe Louis

Sports and Race in Twentieth-Century America

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Joe Louis: Sports and Race in Twentieth Century America is both a succinct introduction to a larger-than-life figure and an essential case study of the intersection of popular culture and race in the mid-century United States.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9780415895644
• ISBN-10: 0415895642
• Artikelnr.: 33110016

Autorenporträt

Marcy S. Sacks is the John S. Ludington Endowed Professor of History at Albion College in Albion, Michigan.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 - The Son of an Alabama Sharecropper
Chapter 2 - "Born with Two Strikes"
Chapter 3 - "The Man in the Mask"
Chapter 4 - "Heroes Aren't Supposed to Lose"
Chapter 5 - "A Credit to His Race"
Chapter 6 - "It Makes Us a Pack of Liars"
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