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Globetrotting : African American athletes and Cold war politics / Damion L. Thomas.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2012.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780252094293
  • 9781283714372
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • GV583 .G563 2012
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Contents:
"Spreading the gospel of basketball": the Harlem Globetrotters, the State Department, and the minstrel tradition, 1945-54 -- Playing politics: the formation of the U.S. Cold War-era athletic foreign policy -- "The good Negroes": propaganda and the racial crisis -- Black power: international politics and the revolt of the black athlete.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

The showcase African American: Paul Robeson, Jackie Robinson, and the politics of Cold War prosperity and repression -- "Spreading the gospel of basketball": the Harlem Globetrotters, the State Department, and the minstrel tradition, 1945-54 -- Playing politics: the formation of the U.S. Cold War-era athletic foreign policy -- "The good Negroes": propaganda and the racial crisis -- Black power: international politics and the revolt of the black athlete.

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