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Davis, Timothy. “Racism in Athletics: Subtle Yet Persistent.”University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review, vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 881–900, 1999.
Hoberman, John Milton.Darwin's Athletes: How Sport Has Damaged-Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997.
Lapchick, Richard E.1998 Racial and Gender Report Card. Center for the Study of Sport in Society, Northeastern University. Boston: Massachusetts, 1999.
Shropshire, Kenneth L.In Black and White: Race and Sports in America. New York: New York University Press, 1996.
— and Earl Smith. “The Tarzan Syndrome: John Hoberman and His Quarrels with African American Athletes & Intellectuals.” Review essay of John Hoberman,Darwin's Athletes, appearing in theJournal of Sport and Social Issues, 22:103–112, 1997.
Smith, Earl. “Race Matters in the National Basketball Association.”Marquette Sports Law Journal, vol. 9, No. 2, 1999.
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Earl Smith is Dr. Ernest Rubin Professor of American Ethnic Studies and chairman of the Department of Sociology at Wake Forest University.
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Smith, E. There was no golden age of sport for African American athletes. Soc 37, 45–48 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02686174
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