A Level Playing Field - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Level Playing Field write by Gerald L. Early. This book was released on 2011-04-29. A Level Playing Field available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The noted cultural critic Gerald Early explores the intersection of race and sports, and our deeper, often contradictory attitudes toward the athletes we glorify. What desires and anxieties are encoded in our worship of (or disdain for) high-performance athletes? What other, invisible contests unfold when we watch a sporting event?
Level Playing Field for All?
Level Playing Field for All? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Level Playing Field for All? write by Leanne Doherty. This book was released on 2011-07-16. Level Playing Field for All? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Level Playing Field for All examines candidates' use of sports in election campaigns as a way to understand broader issues of candidate viability and, in particular, the hurdles that women must overcome to achieve political office. It reveals the extent to which athletic participation has become a social eligibility factor in the success of candidates for elected office.--[book cover].
A Level Playing Field
A Level Playing Field - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Level Playing Field write by Rachel Wise. This book was released on 2012-09-25. A Level Playing Field available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A middle-school star reporter has a tough time taking a stance on a story when her cowriter is also her crush. Samantha really enjoys writing for her school newspaper, particularly when she’s assigned to write with Michael Lawrence, who happens to also be her crush. She’s thrilled to work with him—but less thrilled to realize they disagree on how the article should be written. The topic is whether students should pay for extracurricular activities, such as sports, and Samantha thinks it’s a good idea. After all, baseball isn’t as important as math or language arts, she argues. But try telling that to the star pitcher on the school’s baseball team! Maybe Samantha’s headline should be Trouble in the Newsroom! All’s not fair in love and journalism in this newsworthy addition to a tween-savvy series.
Leveling the Playing Field
Leveling the Playing Field - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Leveling the Playing Field write by David Marc. This book was released on 2015-07-22. Leveling the Playing Field available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Leveling the Playing Field tells the story of the African American members of the 1969–70 Syracuse University football team who petitioned for racial equality on their team. The petition had four demands: access to the same academic tutoring made available to their white teammates; better medical care for all team members; starting assignments based on merit rather than race; and a discernible effort to racially integrate the coaching staff, which had been all white since 1898. The players’ charges of racial disparity were fiercely contested by many of the white players on the team, and the debate spilled into the newspapers and drew protests from around the country. Mistakenly called the "Syracuse 8" by media reports in the 1970s, the nine players who signed the petition did not receive a response allowing or even acknowledging their demands. They boycotted the spring 1970 practice, and Coach Ben Schwartzwalder, a deeply beloved figure on campus and a Hall of Fame football coach nearing retirement, banned seven of the players from the team. As tensions escalated, white players staged a day-long walkout in support of the coaching staff, and an enhanced police presence was required at home games. Extensive interviews with each player offer a firsthand account of their decision to stand their ground while knowing it would jeopardize their professional football career. They discuss with candor the ways in which the boycott profoundly changed the course of their lives. In Leveling the Playing Field, Marc chronicles this contentious moment in Syracuse University’s history and tells the story through the eyes of the players who demanded change for themselves and for those who would follow them.
Levelling the Playing Field
Levelling the Playing Field - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Levelling the Playing Field write by Andrew Mason. This book was released on 2006-10-05. Levelling the Playing Field available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Equality of opportunity for all" is a fine piece of political rhetoric but the ideal that lies behind it is slippery to say the least. Some see it as an alternative to a more robust form of egalitarianism, whilst others think that when it is properly understood it provides us with a real radical vision of what it is to level the playing field. This book combines a meritocratic conception of equality of opportunity that governs access to advantaged social positions, withredistributive principles that seek to mitigate the effects of differences in people's circumstances. Taken together, these spell out what it is to level the playing field in the way that justice requires.Oxford Political Theory presents the best new work in contemporary political theory. It is intended to be broad in scope, including original contributions to political philosophy, and also work in applied political theory. The series will contain works of outstanding quality with no restriction as to approach or subject matter.Series Editors: Will Kymlicka, David Miller, and Alan Ryan
