Taboo

Taboo, was written by John Entine. It was published by PublicAffairs in the year 2000 in New York, New York. The version of the book that I had read was the paperback edition, which consisted of 387 pages. The author John Entine is a journalist and Emmy award-winning producer, formerly with NBS and ABC News. Entine also writes on business ethics and brand marketing for newspapers and magazines around the world. His Television Special, “Black Athletes: Fact or Fiction,” written with Tom Brokaw, was named the International Sports Film of the Year.

The purpose of Entine’s book was to answer the age-old question, “are those of African heritage naturally better athletes?” Entine wrote this book because in a society in which sport is an obsession, and in which it is obvious sport and race are linked, people have been afraid of approaching the subject of race and sport due to the suspicion they would be labeled a racist. But is there another reason why the percentage of blacks represented in sport out number that of their percentage of society? Entine explores this question as well as many others in a professional and scientific fas

. . .
Some common words found in the essay are:
East Africans, Sports Film, Olympics Kenya, Joe Louis, West African, West Africans, Integration Sports, John Entine, York York, ABC Entine, black athletes, race sport, subject race sport, black white, african descent, female sprinters, represented sport, john entine, dominate sport, west african, subject race, white female sprinters, represented sport compared, west african descent, black white athletes,
Approximate Word count = 1278
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)