Frontline Bodies

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Sports and the Uplifting of Bodies with Character (ca. 1890-1930)
1. "By This Sign We Shall Conquer": Sports, Character, and Racial Uplift
2. "We Need Strong Men Physically": Sports, Education, and Manliness
3. "A Fine, Strong, Resistive Body": Sports, Charm, and Womanhood
Part II: Sports and the Rallying of Powerful Bodies (ca. 1920-1960)
4. "The One Great Assembly": Sports, the New Negro, and the Football Classic
5. Strong and Clean and True like Bright New Steel": Sports, Race Leaders, and Civil Rights
6. "Nazi Practices": Sports, Political Activism, and Racial Desegregation
Part III: Sports and the Contradictions of Bodily Excellence (from 1945)
7. "Democracy in Action": Sports, the Black Bourgeoisie, and the Civil Rights Movement
8. "A Frantic Escape from Freedom": Sports, Institutional Racism, and Black Power
9. "An American Myth?": Sports, Racial Uplift, and Urban Crisis
Conclusion: Self-Uplift and Minority Struggles
Bibliography

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• História social e cultural
• Estudos Black & Asian
• História do desporto
• As minorias étnicas e Estudos Multiculturais
• História moderna para o século 20: c1700 a c 1900
• História do século 20: c 1900 a c 2000

Black bodies, Sports, Entertainment, Black Americans, Reconstruction, Athletics, racial oppression, Edwin B. Henderson, Black physical educator, Historian of Black sports, Training Black athletes, World War II, Institutional racism, Anti-Black stereotypes