TABOO Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports And Why We're Afraid To Talk About It JON ENTINE

"A notable and jarring work. …Perhaps Entine's topic alone will offend some readers. But that shouldn't detract from the author's balanced and thorough treatment."
Business Week

"At long last, someone has the guts to tell it like it is….In addition to being an analysis of performance research, Taboo is a powerful history of African-Americans in sports itself….Thanks to Entine, the genie is out of the bottle, and the debate about race and athleticism will never be the same again."
St. Petersburg Times

"[T]he timing has never been better for Entine's balanced, well-reasoned and-above all-calm explanation of the issue….Entine convincingly argues for the overwhelming on-field evidence, allows for the determining X factors of environment and depoliticizes the discussion by attempting to kill the long-held cultural bedtime story about the link between athletic excellence and low intelligence."
Sports Illustrated

"Taboo is a good read for anyone interested in the history of Black athletes in the United States and worldwide….Whether you agree with Entine or not, Taboo illustrates that some controversies are too complex to be solved in terms of Black and White."
Emerge

"Entine marshals such an impressive array of evidence that we should no longer be content to explain why blacks excel at certain sports by simply resorting to the old cultural argument that athletics have been the only avenues of upward mobility that were truly open to them. He's raised the argument to new heights."
Washington Post Book World

"The great value of Taboo is that it lets off another stick of dynamite under the nurturist consensus, which is already beginning to crack and split. The evidence Entine presents is overwhelming, the larger conclusions plain: we can have equal outcomes by race, or we can have meritocracy, but we can't have both."
National Review