The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, January 23rd, 2000
Biology, ancestry and the black athlete
By RICHARD BERNSTEIN
New York Times News Service
Sunday, January 23, 2000
Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We're Afraid toaTalk About It. By Jon Entine. 387 pages. PublicAffairs. $25.
Black athletes are so dominant in track, basketball, boxing and football, and so strongly represented at the top echelons of baseball, that a serious effort to determine why seems inevitable.
This particular inquiry, by Jon Entine, a former television producer and freelance journalist, also has a provocative edge to it because Entine drives relentless...
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