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Sports, Race, and Gender Sports Term Paper
Pages:5 (1706 words)
Sources:3
Subject:Sport
Topic:Sport Injury
Document Type:Term Paper
Document:#77228108
But despite these strides, the negative as well as the positive legacy of sports in American culture cannot be ignored.
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About Title IX. (2010). University of Iowa. Retrieved September 20, 2010 at http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/ge/aboutRE.html
Douglas, Scott. (2005). Running through Kenya. Slate.com. Retrieved September 20, 2010 at http://www.slate.com/id/2117122/entry/2117123/
Gettleman, Elizabeth. (2006, July). Review of William C. Rhoden's Forty Million Dollar Slaves.
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