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Passing the Baton
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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Raising the Bar: Alice Coachman and the Boundaries of Postwar American Identity, 1946-1948

Chapter 2. Sprints of Citizenship: Identity Politics and Black Women's Athleticism, 1951-1952

Chapter 3. Passing the Baton Toward Belonging: Mae Faggs and the Making of the Americanness of Black American Track Women, 1954-1956

Chapter 4. Winning as American Women: The Heteronormativity of Black Women Athletic Heroines, 1958-1960

Chapter 5. "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

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Cat M. Ariail is a lecturer in the Department of History at Middle Tennessee State University.

Reviews

"What makes this book a priceless contribution to the field of sport history is Ariail's argument that the athletic victories of Black women in track and field surpassed the sports stage and directly impacted political relationships with the Unites States and forged America's image. . . . I highly recommend this book as it intermingles foreign politics, American values, and challenges experienced by Black women in track and field seeking to reach the epitome of athleticism." --Journal of Sport History
"Ariail's intersectional analysis of race and gender is detailed in explication of white and Black press representations of--as well as coaches', track-and-field officials', and politicians' public statements about--Black women track and field athletes. . . . Passing the Baton is an important reconsideration of Black women athletes' physical and representational performances as ideological work equivalent to other cultural workers and civil rights leaders." --Journal of American History
"Passing the Baton is engaging, optimistic, and unsentimental--it elucidates a rarely discussed period of American athletic history and thus offers much value to any demographic." --Journal of African American Studies

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