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From Jackie Robinson to Muhammad Ali and Arthur Ashe, DARK-COLORED sportsmen have been at the guts of modern culture, their on-the-field heroics adored and stratospheric earnings envied. But for almost all their money, fame, and success, says former New York Times columnist William C. Rhoden, dark athletes still end up on the periphery of true electric power in the multibillion-dollar industry their skill built. Provocative and controversial, Rhoden's Forty Million Dollar Slaves weaves a powerful narrative of dark athletes in america, from the plantation to their origins in 19th-century boxing bands and at the first Kentucky Derby to the history-making achievements of notable figures such as Jesse Owens, Althea Gibson, and Willie Mays. Rhoden makes the cogent debate that black sportsmen' "advancement" has simply been a journey from literal plantations to today's figurative ones, by means of collegiate and professional athletics programs. Sketching from his decades as a sportswriter, Rhoden contends that dark sportsmen' exercise of true electric power is really as limited today as when masters pressured their slaves to competition and fight. Sweeping and meticulously in depth, Forty Million Dollar Slaves can be an eye-opening exploration of a metaphor we only thought we understood.
