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Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete
by William C. Rhoden (Hardcover - Jul 11, 2006) From
Jackie Robinson to
Muhammad Ali and
Arthur Ashe,
African American athletes have been at the
center of modern culture, their on-the-field heroics admired and stratospheric
earnings envied. But for all their money, fame, and achievement, says
New York Times columnist William C. Rhoden,
black athletes still find
themselves on the periphery of true power in the multibillion-dollar industry
their talent built. |
| Provocative and controversial,
Rhoden’s
$40 Million Slaves weaves a compelling narrative of
black athletes
in the United States, from the plantation to their beginnings in nineteenth-century
boxing rings and at the first Kentucky Derby to the history-making accomplishments
of notable figures such as
Jesse Owens,
Althea Gibson, and
Willie Mays.
Rhoden makes the cogent argument that
black athletes’ “evolution” has merely
been a journey from literal plantations—where sports were introduced as
diversions to quell revolutionary stirrings—to today’s figurative ones,
in the form of collegiate and professional sports programs. Weaving in his
own experiences growing up on Chicago’s South Side, playing college football
for an all-black university, and his decades as a sportswriter,
Rhoden contends
that
black athletes’ exercise of true power is as limited today as when
masters forced their slaves to race and fight. The primary difference is,
today’s shackles are often of their own making. |
| Every advance made by
black athletes,
Rhoden explains, has been met with
a knee-jerk backlash—one example being
Major League Baseball’s integration
of the sport, which stripped the black-controlled
Negro League of its talent
and left it to founder. He details the “conveyor belt” that brings kids
from inner cities and small towns to big-time programs, where they’re cut
off from their roots and exploited by team owners, sports agents, and the
media. He also sets his sights on athletes like
Michael Jordan, who he says
have abdicated their responsibility to the community with an apathy that
borders on treason. |
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Breaking the Chains of Psychological Slavery by
Na'im Akbar (Paperback
- Jun 1996) |
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The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
by
Tim Madigan (Paperback - Feb 1, 2003) Other Edition(s):
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 Catch This!: Going Deep with the NFL's Sharpest Weapon
by
Terrell Owens,
Stephen Singular (Hardcover - Sep 28, 2004) Other Edition(s):
Paperback~ In a sport full of players who are larger than
life,
Terrell Owens towers above the crowd. |
 Clemente:
The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero by
David Maraniss
(Hardcover - April 25, 2006) Other Edition(s):
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Cosmopolitanism:
Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time) (Issues of Our Time)
by
Kwame Anthony Appiah and
Henry Louis Gates (Hardcover - Jan 23, 2006) Other
Edition(s):
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The
Covenant with Black America by Tavis Smiley (Paperback - Jan 1,
2006) |
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Darwin's
Athletes: How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race
by
John Hoberman (Paperback - Nov 3, 1997) |
 Don't
Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on
Love and Life by
Tyler Perry (Hardcover - April 11, 2006) Other
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The Conspiracy to Destroy Black Women by Michael Porter (Paperback
- April 1, 2001) Other Edition(s):
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Come
Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster
by Michael Eric Dyson (Hardcover - Feb 28, 2006) |
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Epic
Journeys of Freedom: Runaway Slaves of the American Revolution and Their Global
Quest for Liberty by
Cassandra Pybus (Hardcover - Feb 1, 2006) |
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The
Forgotten Fifth: African Americans in the Age of Revolution (The Nathan I. Huggins
Lectures) by
Gary B. Nash (Hardcover - Feb 28, 2006)
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Fortunate
Son: A Novel by
Walter Mosley (Hardcover - April 10, 2006) Other
Edition(s):
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Digital |
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The GREat Black Way: L.A. in the 1940s and the Lost African-American
Renaissance
by
R. J. Smith (Hardcover - Jun 12, 2006) |
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He
Talk Like a White Boy by
Joseph C. Phillips (Hardcover - May 31, 2006)
Other Edition(s):
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The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege
by
Robert Jensen (Paperback - Sep 1, 2005) |
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Hip-Hop
and Philosophy: Rhyme 2 Reason (Popular Culture and Philosophy) by
Derrick Darby and
Tommie Shelby (Paperback - Nov 9, 2005) |
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I,
Nadia, Wife of a Terrorist (France Overseas) by
Baya Gacemi,
Fanny Colonna,
Edmund Burke III, and
Paul Cote (Paperback - April 7, 2006) |
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I, Nadia, Wife of a Terrorist (France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization
Series) by
Baya Gacemi (Hardcover - April 7, 2006) |
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In the Game: Race, Identity, and Sports in the Twentieth Century
by
Amy Bass (Hardcover - Aug 20, 2005) |
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Is
Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost its Mind? by Michael Eric Dyson (Hardcover - April 26, 2005) |
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Just
Give Me the Damn Ball!: The Fast Times and Hard Knocks of an NFL Rookie
by
Keyshawn Johnson and
Shelley Smith (Hardcover - May 1, 1997) |
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Kill
Them Before They Grow: The Misdiagnosis of African American Boys in America's
Classrooms by Michael Porter (Paperback - Mar 1998) |
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Now, Cry Later Audio CD ~
Ice Cube (Artist) |
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to a Young Brother: MANifest Your Destiny by
Hill Harper (Hardcover
- April 20, 2006) Other Edition(s):
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Lost
Hearts in Italy: A Novel by
Andrea Lee (Hardcover - Jun 20, 2006) |
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Mis-Education of the Negro by
Carter Godwin Woodson (Paperback -
Jul 1, 2006) Other Edition(s):
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Never
Mind Success - Go For GREatness!: The Best Advice I've Ever Received
by Tavis Smiley (Paperback - Jan 1, 2006) |
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The
Pursuit of Happyness by
Chris Gardner (Hardcover - Jun 1, 2006)
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Riot and Remembrance: The Tulsa Race War and Its Legacy by
James S. Hirsch
(Hardcover - Feb 22, 2002) |
 Rough
Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution by
Simon Schama (Hardcover - April 25, 2006) |
 Six
Lessons for Six Sons: An Extraordinary Father, A Simple Formula for Success
by
Joe Massengale and
David Clow (Hardcover - Mar 21, 2006) |
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The
Sixth Man: A Season Inside the NBA Playground by
Chris Palmer (Hardcover
- April 25, 2006) |
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Speak, Brother! A Black Man's View of America by
Roland S. Martin (Paperback
- Jun 17, 2002) |
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Stepping
Up: The Story of All-Star Curt Flood and His Fight for Baseball Players' Rights
by
Alex Belth and
Tim McCarver (Hardcover - Mar 20, 2006) |
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Sound
and Fury: Two Powerful Lives, One Fateful Friendship by
Dave Kindred
(Hardcover - Feb 28, 2006) Other Edition(s):
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Streetball:
All the Ballers, Moves, Slams, & Shine by
And 1 and
Chris Palmer
(Paperback - Nov 1, 2004) |
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by
Terrell Owens (Hardcover - Jul 5, 2006) |
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 Third
and a Mile: From Fritz Pollard to Michael Vick - An Oral History of the
Trials, Tears and Triumphs of the Black Quarterback by William C. Rhoden (Hardcover - Oct 31, 2006) |
| An oral history of the fifty-year
struggle to level football’s playing fields.
Long after
Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier, after
Texas Western (Sports & Outdoors)
beat
Kentucky (Sports & Outdoors) to shake up the basketball world, America’s
black quarterbacks
found themselves trapped on football’s sidelines unable to play the game
they loved unless they moved to wide receiver -- or to Canada. A collection
of voices young and old,
William C. Rhoden’s
Third and a Mile chronicles
for the first time the heroic struggle to topple the sports world’s staunchest
racial barrier. Filled with personal anecdotes and firsthand recollections,
the book includes testimony from NFL GREats such as
Warren Moon,
Doug Williams,
Vince Evans,
James Harris,
Marlin Briscoe,
Donovan McNabb,
Steve McNair,
Daunte Culpepper, and
Michael Vick. |
| The NFL’s first five
black quarterbacks have come together to form
The Field Generals
-- a non-profit organization dedicated to teaching and preserving the
history of the
African-American quarterback. |
 The
Senator and the Socialite: The True Story of America's First Black Dynasty
by Lawrence Otis Graham (Hardcover - Jul 1, 2006) |
| This is the true story
of America's first black dynasty. The years after the
Civil War represented
an astonishing moment of opportunity for African-Americans. The rush to
build a racially democratic society from the ruins of slavery is never more
evident than in the personal history of
Blanche Kelso Bruce and his heirs. |
| Born a slave in 1841,
Bruce became a local Mississippi sheriff, developed
a growing Republican power base, amassed a real-estate fortune, and became
the first black to serve a full Senate term. He married
Josephine Willson,
the daughter of a wealthy black Philadelphia doctor. Together they broke
racial barriers as a socialite couple in 1880s Washington, D.C. |
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| By befriending President
Ulysses S. Grant,
abolitionist
Frederick Douglass,
and a cadre of liberal black and white Republicans,
Bruce spent six years in the U.S.
Senate, then gained appointments under four presidents (Garfield,
Arthur, Harrison, and McKinley), culminating with a top Treasury post,
which placed his name on all U.S. currency. |
| During Reconstruction, the
Bruce family entertained lavishly in their
two Washington town houses and acquired an 800-acre plantation, homes in
four states, and a fortune that allowed their son and grandchildren to attend
Phillips Exeter Academy and
Harvard University (Sports & Outdoors), beginning in 1896. |
| The Senator's legacy would continue with his son, Roscoe, who became
both a protégé of
Booker T. Washington and a superintendent of Washington,
D.C.'s seGREgated schools. When the family moved to New York in the 1920s
and formed an alliance with
John D. Rockefeller Jr., the
Bruces became an
enviable force in Harlem society. Their public battle to get their grandson
admitted into
Harvard University's seGREgated dormitories elicited the support
of people like
W. E. B. Du Bois and
Franklin D. Roosevelt, and broke brave
new ground for blacks of their day. |
| But in the end, the
Bruce dynasty's wealth and stature would disappear
when the Senator's grandson landed in prison following a sensational trial
and his Radcliffe-educated granddaughter married a black Hollywood actor
who passed for white. |
| By drawing on Senate records, historic documents, and the personal letters
of
Senator Bruce, Josephine, their colleagues, friends, children, and grandchildren,
author Lawrence Otis Graham weaves a riveting social history that spans
120 years. From Mississippi to Washington, D.C., to New York,
The Senator and the Socialite provides a fascinating look into the history of race
and class in America. |
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We
Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity by
Tommie Shelby (Hardcover - Nov 15, 2005) |
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What's
My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States by
Dave Zirin (Paperback - Jul 1, 2005) |
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in
Twentieth-Century America by
Ira Katznelson (Paperback - Aug 14,
2006) Other Edition(s):
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