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Author Weisbord, Robert G., author.

Title Racism and the Olympics / Robert G. Weisbord
Published New Brunswick, New Jersey : Transaction Publishers, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 214 pages)
Contents A case of amnesia : racism and the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics -- Jews, blacks, and the 1936 Nazi Olympics -- The 1940 winter Olympics, the games that never happened : politics, morality, and sports -- Racism and the Olympics : the 1968 Mexico City games -- Apartheid and the expulsion of South Africa from the Olympics -- U.D.I. and the expulsion of Rhodesia from the Olympics -- Aftermath : outlaw nations as Olympic hosts : gays and others as targets of discrimination
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-197) and index
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Subject Olympics -- History
Olympics -- Social aspects
Racism in sports -- History
Discrimination in sports -- History
GAMES -- Gambling -- Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Business Aspects.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Essays.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- History.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Reference.
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Sports.
Discrimination in sports
Olympics
Olympics -- Social aspects
Racism in sports
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781412856348
1412856345