Title Passing the baton : black women track stars and American identity / Cat M. Ariail

Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource Series Sport and society Sport and society. Contents Raising the bar : Alice Coachman and the boundaries of postwar American identity, 1946-1948 -- Sprints of citizenship : identity politics and black women's athleticism, 1951-1952 -- Passing the baton toward belonging : Mae Faggs and the making of the Americanness of black American track women, 1954-1956 -- Winning as American women : the heteronormativity of black women athletic heroines, 1958-1960 -- "Olympian quintessence" : Wilma Rudolph, athletic femininity, and American iconicity, 1960-1962 -- Conclusion. The precarity of the baton pass : race, gender, and the enduring barriers to American belonging Summary "After World War II, the United States used international sport to promote democratic values and its image of an ideal citizen. But African American women excelling in track and field upset such notions. Cat M. Ariail examines how athletes such as Alice Coachman, Mae Faggs, and Wilma Rudolph forced American sport cultures-both white and Black-to reckon with the athleticism of African American women. Marginalized still further in a low-profile sport, young Black women nonetheless bypassed barriers to represent their country. Their athletic success soon threatened postwar America's dominant ideas about race, gender, sexuality, and national identity. As Ariail shows, the wider culture defused these radical challenges by locking the athletes within roles that stressed conservative forms of femininity, blackness, and citizenship"-- Provided by publisher Notes Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Miami, 2018, titled Sprints of citizenship : black women track stars and the making of modern citizenship in the United States and Jamaica, 1946-1964 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 15, 2020) Subject African American women track and field athletes -- History -- 20th century African American women track and field athletes -- Social conditions African American women -- Race identity African American women -- Social conditions Track and field for women -- United States -- History -- 20th century Discrimination in sports -- United States -- History -- 20th century African American women -- Ethnic identity SPORTS & RECREATION -- General. African American women -- Race identity African American women -- Social conditions African American women track and field athletes Discrimination in sports Race relations Track and field for women SUBJECT United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century Subject United States Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book LC no. 2020023705 ISBN 9780252052361 0252052366

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