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Canada and the United States

Amy Bass. Not the Triumph but the Struggle: The 1968 Olympics and the Making of the Black Athlete. (Critical American Studies Series.) Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2002. Pp. xxi, 438. $27.95.

Amy Bass has made a significant contribution to the growing field of sport history by placing the 1968 Olympic protest within the larger context of the fight for civil rights during the 1960s. The importance of sport and its imagery of democracy during the Cold War is key to understanding this international event, according to Bass. The role of the media is thoroughly examined, particularly how various outlets sought to portray African Americans as consummate U.S. citizens who welcomed the opportunity to represent their country at the world's greatest sporting event. Bass argues, in essence, that the black athlete served as a governmental and media pawn for America. Relying on official documentation, including newspapers, government records, and Olympic Committee papers, the author clearly illustrates how "sport provided a battlefield for the strain between the United States and the Soviet Union to take place without gunfire" (p. 9).

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