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Argues that the prominence of African-American athletes contributes to social divisions, provides fuel for painful racial stereotypes, and encourages a de-emphasis on academic achievement in black communities.
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Darwin's Athletes zeroes in on our society's fixation on black athletic achievement. John Hoberman compellingly argues that this obsession - one shared by both blacks and whites in the media, in corporate America, and even by athletes themselves - has come to play a disastrous role in African-American life and a troubling role in our country's race relations. The sports fixation originates in the painful century-long exclusion of blacks from every other path to high achievement. The scarcity of other kinds of "race heroes" has conferred messianic status on the most popular black athletes, fostering a delusion of integration while contributing to deep social divisions. Ironically, Hoberman argues, the decline of European empires and the rise of the black athlete helped to preserve rather than undermine the inferior status of nonwhites.
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Hoberman, the author of Mortal Engines: The Science of Performance and Dehumanization of Sport, lives in Austin, Texas.
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- PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0395822912
- ISBN 13 9780395822913
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages341
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