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This book chronicles the struggles and triumphs of African American athletes in the Modern Olympic Games, from 1896 through the 2020 Tokyo Games. It explores the lives and careers of both legendary and little-known Black Olympians as they sought to honor themselves, their race, and their nation on the world stage.

This volume draws together four decades of work by David Wiggins on topics to do with language, meaning, truth, and the limit of semantic analysis. Topics include the historical background of contemporary philosophical accounts of meaning, sentence structure, definitions, and the nature of truth.

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Winner of the 2017 NASSH Book Award for best edited collection. The hardening of racial lines during the first half of the twentieth century eliminated almost all African Americans from white organized sports, forcing black athletes to form their own teams, organizations, and events. This separate sporting culture, explored in the twelve essays included here, comprised much more than athletic competition, these "separate games" provided exampl...

The purpose of this story is to bring about a greater awareness of the thousands of feral children that live in our world and how they obtain clean drinking water and a daily meal. Feral children are without an adult to care for them and to assist them to find a home, so we should stand in the place of the absent adult, we should care for all the children in the world that have no parents and carers, it is our moral duty. Jesus Christ said, "L...

Many of us have encountered people who were so heavenly minded they were of no earthly good. Within the pages of this book, the reader will discover the amazing link between the deity of Jesus and His humanity as it as never before been revealed. It is frequently overlooked that there were other things occurring while a miracle was taking place. Though those things are not recorded, it was necessary for it to take place and there are facts tha...

Few issues have engaged sport scholars more than that of race and ethnicity. This is the first book to offer a comprehensive survey of the full sweep of approaches to the study of race, sport and ethnicity. Exploring subjects such as the global politics of racism in sport, this is essential reading for any student or researcher of sport studies.

More than a Game discusses how African American men and women sought to participate in sport and what that participation meant to them, the African American community, and the country. It discusses the varied experiences of African Americans in sport and how their participation has both reflected and changed views of race.

An intriguing look at the most famous recorded miracles in history.

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For this volume David Wiggins has selected and revised eleven of his essays in an area of metaphysics where his work has been particularly influential, and he has added a substantial introduction and one new unpublished essay. Among the subjects treated are substance, identity, persistence, persons, sortals, and artefacts.

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A substantially revised and expanded edition of David Wiggins' classic work Sameness and Substance.

This extraordinarily rich compendium of primary sources charts the significant, intertwining history of African Americans and sport. "The Unlevel Playing Field" contains more than 100 accounts taken from newspapers (both black and white), periodicals, and autobiographies, by literary and sports figures, activists, historians, and others. 65 photos.

Found on monuments throughout the South, the sentiment aLest we forget!a represents the theme of Remembering Georgiaas Confederates. Dedicated to the men and women who served Georgia when her heart belonged to the Confederate States of America, this volume remembers the stateas Confederate pastaa time of passion, devotion, honor, courage, faith, perseverance, sacrifice, and loss. Georgia, rich in its heritage, boasts numerous locales to visit,...

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Confederate monuments and markers in cemeteries across Georgia are inscribed with a variety of dedications. Many offer a simple sentiment, such as "Our Confederate Dead, 1861-1865" or "Lest We Forget", some present a more political statement--"They Fought Not For Conquest, But For Liberty And Their Own Homes", some have long soliloquies of prose or poetry, and others feature lists of names of individuals or units that served. Georgia's Confede...

Found on monuments throughout the South, the sentiment "Lest we forget!" represents the theme of Remembering Georgia's Confederates. Dedicated to the men and women who served Georgia when her heart belonged to the Confederate States of America, this volume remembers the state's Confederate past--a time of passion, devotion, honor, courage, faith, perseverance, sacrifice, and loss. Georgia, rich in its heritage, boasts numerous locales to visit...

The hardening of racial lines during the first half of the twentieth century eliminated almost all African Americans from white organised sports, forcing black athletes to form their own teams, organizations, and events. Separate Games explores the fascinating ways sports helped bind the black community and illuminate race pride, business acumen, and organisational abilities.