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Race, Sports, and Affirmative Action
October 28, 2003
Gerald L. Early professor, Afro-American Studies, Washington

Gerald L. Early, Merle Kling professor of modern letters at Washington University in St. Louis, discusses his cultural observations on African American athletes. Early traverses a number of subjects in his writing, seemingly without effort, from a study of African American rhetoric to a meditation on boxing, from an historical survey of assimilation to an exploration of Motown.

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Image of This Is Where I Came In: Black America in the 1960s (Abraham Lincoln Lecture)
Author: Gerald L. Early
Publisher: Bison Books (2003)
Binding: Paperback, 144 pages
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