Theresa Runstedtler

Biographic Data

ID277935
NAMETheresa Runstedtler
GIVEN NAMESTheresa
FAMILY NAMERunstedtler
SIGNATURERUNSTEDTLER T
AFFILIATIONSAmerican University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS11
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • Unnecessary Roughness: The NFL's War on Drugs in the 1970s

    Open AccessTheresa RunstedtlerARTICLEModern American History2024

    In April 1970, the African American defensive end Houston Ridge's $1.25 million lawsuit put the issue of drug use in professional football in the public eye. It also raised questions about the league's exploitation of athletes for the sake of profits, at any cost. Plagued by a hip injury sustained during a game in October 1969, the twenty-five-year-old former San Diego Charger's suit charged conspiracy and malpractice, naming team personnel and b…

  • Ashley Brown. Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson

    Open AccessTheresa RunstedtlerARTICLEThe American Historical Review2024

  • Jack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner: Boxing in the Shadow of the Global Color Line

    Theresa RunstedtlerBOOKJack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner2019

    In his day, Jack Johnson—born in Texas, the son of former slaves—was the most famous black man on the planet. As the first African American World Heavyweight Champion (1908–1915), he publicly challenged white supremacy at home and abroad, enjoying the same audacious lifestyle of conspicuous consumption, masculine bravado, and interracial love wherever he traveled. Jack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner provides the first in-depth exploration of Johnson’s …

  • Punishing the Punch: "Constructions of Black Criminality during the NBA's "Dark Ages

    Theresa RunstedtlerARTICLEThe Journal of African American…2019References: 2

  • More Than Just Play: Unmasking Black Child Labor in the Athletic Industrial Complex

    Open AccessTheresa RunstedtlerARTICLEJournal of Sport and Social Issues2018Cited by: 10References: 17

    African Americans' hypervisibility in sports remains a frequent point of critique. There has been a tendency to blame Black youths for their supposed 'sports fixation.' Complicating this narrative of cultural pathology, I examine the foundational importance of Black boys' athletic labor to the profitability of the sporting industries. I first trace the structural conditions (imperialism, racism, industrial capitalism) that contributed to the hype…

  • Arthur Ashe: Tennis and Justice in the Civil Rights Era . By Eric Allen Hall

    Theresa RunstedtlerARTICLEJournal of Social History2017

    Throughout his well-researched and nuanced monograph, Eric Hall uses a variety of sources, including newspaper articles, NCAA files, personal correspondence, memoirs, and FBI files, to trace the intersection of the personal and political in the life of African American tennis star Arthur Ashe—from his childhood in the Jim Crow South to his US Open victory in 1968 to his death in 1993. Hall shows that even though Ashe cut his political teeth in th…

  • From White Wash to Black Ice: Black Athletes in Unexpected Places

    Theresa RunstedtlerARTICLEJournal of American Ethnic History2016

    Research Article| January 01 2016 From White Wash to Black Ice: Black Athletes in Unexpected Places Theresa Runstedtler Theresa Runstedtler Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2016) 35 (2): 79–90. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.35.2.0079 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Theresa Runstedtler; From White Wash to Black Ic…

  • Friday Night Fighter: Gaspar "Indio" Ortega and the Golden Age of Television Boxing

    Theresa Runstedtler, T E RunstedtlerARTICLEJournal of American History2014

    Journal Article Friday Night Fighter: Gaspar “Indio” Ortega and the Golden Age of Television Boxing Get access Troy Rondinone. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2013. xx, 274 pp. $32.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 1, June 2014, Pages 316–317, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau303 Published: 01 June 2014

  • Visible Men: African American Boxers, the New Negro, and the Global Color Line

    Theresa RunstedtlerARTICLERadical History Review2009Cited by: 1

    This article examines the various debates surrounding the exploits of African American boxers in France during the early 1900s as a window into the transnational struggle over the terms of race and modernity. Because of the pervasive racial segregation in U.S. boxing, black American heavyweights like Sam McVea, Joe Jeannette, and world champion Jack Johnson ventured across the ocean in search of better opportunities for fame, fortune, and persona…