Darwin's athletes

‘Darwin’s Athletes’ zeroes in on our society’s fixation on black athletic achievement. John Hoberman compellingly argues that this obsession – one shared by both blacks ans whites in the media, in corporate America, and even by athletes themselves – has come to play a disastrous role in African-American life and a troubling role in our country’s race relations. ‘Darwin’s Athletes’ makes a strong case that our century’s scientific search for the racial basis of athletic performance has been incorporated into an older racial folklore – one that has been appropriated by conservative, race-oriented authors such as Charles Murray, Dinesh D’Souza, and J. Philippe Rushton.