Elizabeth V. Spelman, Author, Howard Bryant, Author Beacon Press $20 (240p) ISBN 978-0-8070-6745-1
Much of mainstream feminism focuses on white, middle-class women. Spelman, in what PW termed ``a brilliant, scholarly rethinking of feminist thought,'' traces the roots of this tendency to ignore the interplay of racial, class, cultural and ethnic...
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Howard Bryant, Author . Routledge $27.50 (296p) ISBN 978-0-415-92779-6
The Boston Red Sox' inability to win the World Series is one of the most familiar oddities in sport; the club's peculiar relationship with race is not quite so well known. Bryant, who's covered the Oakland A's and the New York...
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Howard Bryant, Author . Viking $24.95 (439p) ISBN 978-0-670-03445-1
The title suggests an exposé of baseball's steroid problem, but that's merely the surface layer of Bryant's pervasive critique of how the sport has changed over the past decade. After professional baseball was derailed by a bitter
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Howard Bryant, Author . Pantheon $29.95 (624p) ISBN 978-0-375-42485-4
This biography of the African-American baseball great doesn't amount to the epic it wants to be. ESPN reporter Bryant (Juicing the Game
) portrays Aaron's journey from Jim Crow Alabama to superstardom with the Milwaukee, then Atlanta...
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Howard Bryant. Beacon, $26.95 (312p) ISBN 978-0-8070-2699-1
In this timely book, Bryant, senior writer for ESPN Magazine, astutely explains how sports serves “as a barometer of blacks’ standing in the larger culture,” with some black athletes facing harsh criticism for their support of equal rights. He cites
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Howard Bryant. Beacon, $24.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-8070-1955-9
Bryant (The Heritage), a writer for ESPN the Magazine, poses disquieting questions about the intersection of race, politics, history, and sports in this wide-ranging and sharp-edged essay collection. Contending that “black success... has always led...
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Howard Bryant. Mariner, $29.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-358-04731-5
Bryant (The Last Hero), a senior writer for ESPN.com, delivers a solid and comprehensive take on the life and career of Rickey Henderson, Major League Baseball’s all-time stolen base leader. A part of the 1960s “Black migration” to California, 10-yea
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Howard Bryant, illus. by Floyd Cooper. Philomel, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-16906-9
Bryant opens his story of Venus and Serena Williams with a focus on the sisters’ distinctive personalities and close early relationship, as well as on their father, Richard Williams, whose insistence that his daughters would become tennis champions...
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