Constructing banality: the trivialization of the Jackie Robinson legacy / Joel Nathan Rosen
Roberto Clemente: from ignominy to icon / David C. Ogden
Curt flood: "death is a slave's freedom": his fight against baseball, history, and white supremacy / David J. Leonard
Paul Robeson: honor and the politics of dignity / Prosper Godonoo
Remaking an overlooked icon: the reconstruction of Jim Thorpe / Robert W. Reising
Bill Russell: from revulsion to resurrection / Murry Nelson
Racing after Smith and Carlos: revisiting those fists some forty years hence / Urla Hill
Afterword: the globalization of vilification; the localization of redemption / Jack Lule.
