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Article: What's My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States.(Book Review)
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- September 25, 2005
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What's My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States, by Dave Zirin: Haymarket Books, Chicago, Ill., 2005.
Moving into bookstores across the country is a fresh historical account of American progressive resistance and political struggle. Focusing on the United States over the last century, the book connects past struggles with contemporary injustices, and calls on readers to challenge the militarism, homophobia, racism and sexism, the greed, myths, freeloading and cover-ups, the censorships, along with the consumer and taxpayer gouging that continue to tarnish the country.
Believe it or not, this is a book about sports.
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... ... issued the following news release: Dave Zirin, author of What's My Name, Fool! Sports and Resistance in the United States will be speaking on sports, race ... sports and social movements in the United States. Zirin was named Press Action ...
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