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Author | : Rita Liberti |
Publisher | : Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2015-05-29 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0815653077 |
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Wilma Rudolph was born black in Jim Crow Tennessee. The twentieth of 22 children, she spent most of her childhood in bed suffering from whooping cough, scarlet fever, and pneumonia. She lost the use of her left leg due to polio and wore leg braces. With dedication and hard work, she became a gifted runner, earning a track and field scholarship to Tennessee State. In 1960, she became the first American woman to win three gold medals in a single Olympic Games. Her underdog story made her into a media darling, and she was the subject of countless articles, a television movie, children’s books, biographies, and she even featured on a U.S. postage stamp. In this work, Smith and Liberti consider not only Rudolph’s achievements, but also the ways in which those achievements are interpreted and presented as historical fact. Theories of gender, race, class, and disability collide in the story of Wilma Rudolph, and Smith and Liberti examine this collision in an effort to more fully understand how history is shaped by the cultural concerns of the present. In doing so, the authors engage with the metanarratives which define the American experience and encourage more complex and nuanced interrogations of contemporary heroic legacy.
Author | : Wilma Rudolph |
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Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 1977 |
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Author | : Kathleen Krull |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2000-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780152020989 |
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A biography of Wilma Rudolph, an African-American who overcame crippling polio as a child to become the first woman to win three gold medals in track during a single Olympics.
Author | : Krystyna Poray Goddu |
Publisher | : Lerner Publications |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2016-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1467796441 |
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When did Wilma begin to run? What was the first important race she ever won? Cub Reporter interviews her to find out! Learn how Wilma overcame polio and became the first American woman to win three gold medals at a single Olympic Games. Readers will see how to use interviewing skills and journalistic questions to reveal the story behind a famous American.
Author | : Bud Greenspan |
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Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1977 |
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ISBN | : 9780780756052 |
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Author | : Cat M. Ariail |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2020-11-30 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0252052366 |
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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. A rare exploration of African American women athletes and national identity, Passing the Baton reveals young Black women as active agents in the remaking of what it means to be American.
Author | : Wayne R. Coffey |
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Total Pages | : 61 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : African Americans |
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This Olympic star overcame extraordinary adversity, including crippling polio, to become the fastest woman in the world by 1960.
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ISBN | : 9780812470017 |
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Author | : Jo Harper |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2010-05-11 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1439113335 |
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An inspiring story of the first American female athlete to win three gold medals at a single Olympic Games shares her triumphs over childhood illnesses to become a high school basketball player. A Childhood Of Famous Americans title.