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Darwin's Athletes: How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race
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by John Hoberman
Sales Rank: 523070
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Cover Type: Paperback with 384 pages
Published by: Mariner Books November 3, 1997
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0395822920
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0395822920
Book Dimensions:
8.7 x 6 x 0.8 inches
Weighs: 1 pounds
From Library Journal
Hoberman (Germanic languages, Univ. of Texas at Austin) has studied the cultural complexities of race in sport for 25 years. Arguing that our obsession with black athletes ultimately perpetuates the myth of race, he looks at society's fixation on black athletic achievement, which he feels fosters a delusion of integration. Hoberman challenges established beliefs in a thought-provoking, albeit disturbing manner, offering arguments that are convincing, controversial, and guaranteed to spark debate. Although well researched and featuring an exhaustive bibliography and notes, this work is not for everyone. Recommended for large public and academic libraries, or where demand warrants.?Larry Robert Little, Penticton P.L., British Columbia,
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Quarterly Black Review, Akilah Monifa
This will undoubtedly be the most controversial book about black folks since The Bell Curve. a thinly veiled perpetuation of stereotypical myths.
Reader Reviews
This review is from: Darwin's Athletes: How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race (Hardcover)
Like most cultural studies professors, Dr. Hoberman denounces as "racist" any who doubt that all ethnic differences have purely social origins. He rushes in to one topic, though, where his allies fear to tread: Dredging up various historical data, he tries to show that the intensifying link between between race and athletic success somehow stems solely from cultural conditioning. His struggles with the evidence, though, recall the old joke about the Soviet worker on the Leningrad Baby Buggy Factory's receiving dock. Unable to buy a buggy anywhere, he pilfers a set of parts. Sadly, the only way they turn out to fit together is as a machine gun. Likewise, Dr. Hoberman ends up strafing himself in the foot with his own theoretical baby buggy. Revealingly, he deplores integrated sports precisely because they "create the proverbial level playing field." Letting us fans watch lean East Africans outdistance the world's runners, or brawny Samoans flatten NFL quarterbacks, or lithe Chinese dive and tumble for Olympic gold, or muscular athletes of West African descent out-sprint, out-jump, and out-hit all comers... Well, it just encourages us couch potatoes to believe our lying eyes rather than what Thomas Sowell calls the "visions of the annointed." # # # Steve Sailer
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