E-Books → Globetrotting African American Athletes and Cold War Politics

Published by: voska89 on 19-11-2022, 03:44 | 0

Damion L. Thomas, "Globetrotting: African American Athletes and Cold War Politics"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 025208263X, 0252037170 | PDF | pages: 231 | 4.0 mb
Throughout the Cold War, the Soviet Union deplored the treatment of African Americans by the U.S. government as proof of hypocrisy in the American promises of freedom and equality. This probing history examines government attempts to manipulate international perceptions of U.S. race relations during the Cold War by sending African American athletes abroad on goodwill tours and in international competitions as cultural ambassadors and visible symbols of American values. Damion L. Thomas follows the State Department's efforts from 1945 to 1968 to showcase prosperous African American athletes including Jackie Robinson, Jesse Owens, and the Harlem Globetrotters as the preeminent citizens of the African Diaspora rather than as victims of racial oppression. With athletes in baseball, track and field, and basketball, the government relied on figures whose fame carried the desired message to countries where English was little understood. However, eventually African American athletes began to provide counter-narratives to State Department claims of American exceptionalism, most notably with Tommie Smith and John Carlos's famous black power salute at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.

Video Training → African Lion Veterinary Medicine

Published by: voska89 on 18-11-2022, 04:13 | 0

Published 11/2022
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz
Language: English | Size: 2.60 GB | Duration: 2h 35m
Dr Peter Rogers' Groundbreaking African Lion Veterinary Medicine

E-Books → Half American The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad [Audiobook]

Published by: voska89 on 18-11-2022, 00:11 | 0

English | ASIN: B09SBRST4P | 2022 | 8 hours and 46 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 224 MB
The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil rights expert and Dartmouth history professor Matthew Delmont. "Matthew F. Delmont's book is filled with compelling narratives that outline with nuance, rigor, and complexity how Black Americans fought for this country abroad while simultaneously fighting for their rights here in the United States. Half American belongs firmly within the canon of indispensable World War II books."—Clint Smith, #1 New York Times bestselling author. Over one million Black men and women served in World War II. Black troops were at Normandy, Iwo Jima, and the Battle of the Bulge, serving in segregated units and performing unheralded but vital support jobs, only to be denied housing and educational opportunities on their return home. Without their crucial contributions to the war effort, the United States could not have won the war. And yet the stories of these Black veterans have long been ignored, cast aside in favor of the myth of the "Good War" fought by the "Greatest Generation."