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