What's My Name, Fool!,9781931859202

What's My Name, Fool!

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ISBN13: 9781931859202
ISBN10: 1931859205
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-06-13
Publisher(s): Haymarket Books
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Summary

Muhammad Ali taunted his opponents as he danced around the ring, ordering them to answer the question, "What's my name, fool?" Ali's refusal to use his given name, Cassius Clay, was a watershed moment of the 1960s, a time when the worlds of sports and radical politics collided. But social conflict has always existed in the world of big-time pro sports-often over the objections of the owners and media conglomerates in charge.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 9(2)
Foreword by David Meggyesy 11(6)
Introduction: Sports-An Offer We Can't Refuse 17(240)
1 It All Starts With Lester Rodney
23(14)
2 Jackie Robinson 'and the Politics of Stealing Home
37(16)
3 Rumble, Young Man, Rumble: Muhammad Ali and the 1960's
53(20)
4 The 1968 Olympics Raise the Bar
73(28)
5 "We Just Really Hate to Lose": Unions and Sports
101(28)
6 In the Shadow of Ali: Sports, War, and Resistance Today
129(18)
7 Gone With the Wind?: Sports, Race, and the Modern Athlete
147(38)
8 Taking Care of T.C.B.: Sports, Sexism, and Gay Bashing
185(34)
9 Games That Bosses Play
219(38)
10 Stir of Echoes: A New Sporting Resistance? 257(32)
Afterword: We Are the Greatest 289

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