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This book examines 100 years of race relations, using 20 athletes as a lens on American society. Some names are familiar--Muhammad Ali, Jackie Robinson--but others are mostly unknown today--Jimmy Winkfield, Ora Washington. Each entry contains information about the athlete's career and post-career life, as well as an analysis of the role race played in the individual's success. . . . Should find a place in larger libraries.

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David K. Wiggins, a leading authority on African American sports, is a professor and director of the School of Recreation, Health, and Tourism at George Mason University. He is the editor of a number of books in the field, including The Unlevel Playing Field and Sport and the Color Line, both edited with Patrick Miller, and is the author of Glory Bound: Black Athletes in a White World.

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