Blacks at the Net: Volume Two.Blacks at the Net: Volume Two Sundiata Djata Syracuse University Press Syracuse University Press, founded in 1943, is a university press that is part of Syracuse University. External link
1600 Jamesville Avenue, Syracuse, NY 13210 9780815608981, $29.95 www.SyracuseUniversityPress.syr.edu 1-800-365-8929 The final volume of the series, Blacks at the Net: Black Achievement in the History of Tennis, volume two complements and completes the work begun by volume one. Author and Northern Illinois University history teacher Sundiata Djata gives black achievement in the sport of tennis extensive scrutiny on par with previous studies of black achievement in the other sports. Chapters examine both the contributions of individual athletes such as Evonne Goolagong Evonne Fay Goolagong Cawley AO MBE (born July 31 1951, in Griffith, New South Wales, Australia) was one of the world's leading female tennis players in the 1970s and early 1980s. and Ronald Agenor Ronald Jean-Martin Agenor (born November 13, 1964 in Rabat, Morocco) is a professional tennis player from Haïti. He has American citizenship. Agenor was born in Morocco and lived there for ten years. , and aspects of black involvement the sport as a whole, from "Image and Style" to "Advertising and the Black Tennis Professional." "Despite Black Professional players' successes, the issues of race and gender have remained constant. Even with the Williams sisters The Williams Sisters refers to two professional American tennis players who are sisters:
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