Screen LibraryReconstructing fame：sport, race, and evolving reputations
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University Press of Mississippi,
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| Publisher Address: | Jackson |
| Publication Dates: | c2008. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xxiv, 140 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781604730913 (cloth : alk. paper) 1604730919 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | G817 |
| CLC: |
G817.129 G80-05 G817.129-05 |
| Call Number: | G817.129/R311 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Constructing banality: the trivialization of the Jackie Robinson legacy / Joel Nathan Rosen -- Roberto Clemente: from ignominy to icon / David C. Ogden -- Curt flood: "death is a slave's freedom": his fight against baseball, history, and white supremacy / David J. Leonard -- Paul Robeson: honor and the politics of dignity / Prosper Godonoo -- Remaking an overlooked icon: the reconstruction of Jim Thorpe / Robert W. Reising -- Bill Russell: from revulsion to resurrection / Murry Nelson -- Racing after Smith and Carlos: revisiting those fists some forty years hence / Urla Hill -- Afterword: th |