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Taboo

Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports And Why We're Afraid To Talk About It

By: Jon Entine

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Paperback | 20 December 2000 | Edition Number 1

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In virtually every sport in which they are given opportunity to compete, people of African descent dominate. East Africans own every distance running record. Professional sports in the Americas are dominated by men and women of West African descent. Why have blacks come to dominate sports? Are they somehow physically better? And why are we so uncomfortable when we discuss this? Drawing on the latest scientific research, journalist Jon Entine makes an irrefutable case for black athletic superiority. We learn how scientists have used numerous, bogus "scientific" methods to prove that blacks were either more or less superior physically, and how racist scientists have often equated physical prowess with intellectual deficiency. Entine recalls the long, hard road to integration, both on the field and in society. And he shows why it isn't just being black that matters—it makes a huge difference as to where in Africa your ancestors are from.Equal parts sports, science and examination of why this topic is so sensitive, Taboois a book that will spark national debate.

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Social Groups Ethnic Studies Black & Asian Studies Science Biology, Life Sciences Human Biology Sports & Recreation Track & Field Sports

Preface: Reflections on Sports and the Genetic Revolution	p. vii
Foreword	p. xv
The Taboo
Breaking the Taboo on Race and Sports	p. 3
The Education of Sir Roger	p. 11
The Evidence
By the Numbers	p. 17
The Most Level Playing Field	p. 29
Nature's Experiment: The "Kenyan Miracle"	p. 43
History of Race Science and Sports
"More Brains or More ..."	p. 71
Evolution (of Great Athletes)	p. 81
Race Without Color: The History of Human Differences	p. 96
The Origins of Race Science	p. 117
The Segregation and Integration of Sports
The Superiority of White Athletes	p. 137
Jack Johnson in the Ring Against Jim Crow	p. 151
American Eugenics	p. 161
Jesse Owens and the German Race	p. 172
A Knockout Blow to Race Science	p. 188
The "Scheming, Flashy Trickiness" of Jews	p. 198
Nature or Nurture?
The Integration of Sports	p. 207
The Sixties	p. 218
Sports and IQ	p. 232
Winning the Genetic Lottery	p. 246
The Environmentalist Case Against Innate Black Superiority in Sports	p. 272
What About Women?
The Superiority of White Female Athletes	p. 295
East Germany's Sports Machine	p. 305
The Renaissance of the Black Female Athlete	p. 317
Final Thoughts
A Genteel Way to Say "Nigger"?	p. 331
Acknowledgments	p. 343
Notes	p. 346
Index	p. 375
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